{"product_id":"mezzanine-poems-isbn-9780062977465","title":"Mezzanine: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her searing lyricism, as well as a raucous energy and willingness to allow her work to dwell in states of uncertainty and precariousness. The result is an original voice that is incisive and unsparing, but also passionate and tender. Her poems probe the authority of language and logic, questioning the sovereignty of the technological, economic, legal, and political systems that mediate our lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrgent in its creation of a new way of looking at our social and natural worlds, Mezzanine is an insightful and visceral debut collection from a poet whose work is poised to leave a lasting mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection confronts our modern world with rare precision:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoetry of Social Justice:\u003c\/b\u003e Bearing witness to the wrongly convicted, these poems give voice to the silenced and question the systems that failed them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eScience and Systems:\u003c\/b\u003e From the ethics of a Nazi-era anatomy atlas to the volatility of financial markets, Hitzig dissects the language of power with scholarly precision.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIntellectual and Lyrical:\u003c\/b\u003e Fusing academic rigor with a raw, passionate energy, this collection is at once a work of the mind and the heart.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePhilosophical Inquiry:\u003c\/b\u003e What is the cost of certainty? A tamping iron that pierced a man’s skull becomes a meditation on what it means to be human.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Do we sound like robots or do robots sound like us? In poems of conscience, intelligence, and wit, Zoë Hitzig presents arguments in support of both possibilities. Mostly, throughout \u003cem\u003eMezzanine\u003c\/em\u003e's many ingenious premises and modes of address, what I hear is an ageless stark wisdom calling us to decide who and what we are, and what we are willing to heed.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracy K. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eMezzanine\u003c\/em\u003e, we confront a world of diminishing returns--yet with powerful poetic yield.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Muske-Dukes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zoë Hitzig's exquisitely engineered \u003cem\u003eMezzanine \u003c\/em\u003elands the reader in a nether place of talking commodities, misplaced agency, category mistakes, and radical dysphoria. Into such dire circumstances Hitzig dives headfirst, feverish, an investigator who grapples with reality by recreating it from the inside out. In other words, she is a poet, and an extraordinary one at that...Here and there, and just in time, \u003cem\u003eMezzanine\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us what there is to love in the human, and what it feels like to to feel it's still too soon to give up.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy Donnelly, author of The Problem of Many\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] astonishing literary debut...This poet indicts all of us for historical crimes against the first person. at the edge of extinction, she carries on her inquest into identity, however fugitive its traces may be.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSrikanth Reddy, author of Voyager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889486000357,"sku":"NP9780062977465","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062977465.jpg?v=1730231353","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mezzanine-poems-isbn-9780062977465","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}