{"product_id":"soft-targets-paperback-2","title":"Soft Targets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Landau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarred Review in \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e: Through the cadence of these poems, which sometimes resemble lullabies in their dreaminess and gorgeous lyricism, Landau captures the ways humans persist, despite our collective anxiety, in our longing for 'something tender, something that might bloom.'\"\u003cbr\u003e \"...Terse and yet lyrical, floating in white space on the page like stark, intimate thoughts, \u003ci\u003eSoft Targets\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting example of how we cannot take the body out of thinking, and we shouldn't.\" ―\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e Deborah Landau's fourth book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eSoft Targets\u003c\/em\u003e, draws a bullseye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, the speaker's fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an imperiled planet on which all inhabitants are \"soft targets.\" Her melancholic examinations recall life's uncanny ability to transform ordinary places--subways, cafes, street corners--into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern mind.\u003cbr\u003e \"O you who want to slaughter us, we'll be dead soon\/enough what's the rush,\" Landau writes, contemplating a world beset by political tumult, random violence, terror attacks, and climate change. Still there are the ordinary and abundant pleasures of day-to-day living, though the tender exchanges of friendship and love play out against a backdrop of 21st century threats with historical echoes, as neo-Nazis marching in the United States recall her grandmother's flight from Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Landau is the author of three collections of poetry: \u003cem\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Usable Hour\u003c\/em\u003e, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and \u003cem\u003eOrchidelirium\u003c\/em\u003e, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \u003cem\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and included on \"Best of 2015″ lists by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e, BuzzFeed, and \u003cem\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167391617159,"sku":"9781556595660","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fa8f0eaebca63999d3563c7ab22950fd.webp?v=1733327318","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/soft-targets-paperback-2","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}