{"product_id":"gold-cure-paperback","title":"Gold Cure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Mathys\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom gold rushes to black gold, these elegiac poems place a glimmering mirror between resource extraction and utopian dreaming, exploitation and emotional longing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLustrous, tender, and expansive, \u003ci\u003eGold Cure\u003c\/i\u003e moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American interior, excavating buried histories, legacies of conquest, and the pursuit of shimmering ideals. Ted Mathys skewers police brutality in a 16-part poem built on the bones of a nursery rhyme and drives Petrarchan sonnets into shale fields deep under the prairies. In crystalline language rich with allegory and wordplay, Mathys has crafted a moving elegy for the Anthropocene.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Mathys is the author of three previous books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eNull Set, The Spoils, and Forge\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Coffee House Press. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Poetry Society of America, his work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Conjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS \u003ci\u003eNewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Saint Louis, where he teaches at Saint Louis University and curates the 100 Boots Poetry Series at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779368124479,"sku":"9781566895811","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/gold-cure-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}