{"product_id":"wallace-jade-the-work-ipb","title":"[10\/31\/26] Wallace, Jade: The Work Is Done When We Are Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuernica World Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 31, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Work Is Done When We Are Dead,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJade Wallace's sophomore poetry collection, considers work in all its many forms, with a particular interest in types of labour that are unpaid, underappreciated, or even entirely unrecognized. Wallace's poems, by turns frantic and playful, lyric and experimental, probe at how the diffuse responsibilities we have to ourselves and one another might all be interpreted as kinds of labour, and ask whether that is a fruitful framework for our lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Work Is Done When We Are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection that is as poetically indulgent as it is urgently existential.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143460544535,"sku":"9781778490828","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61lf9KdzTuL._SL1200.jpg?v=1781900251","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wallace-jade-the-work-ipb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}