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by Jill McDonough (Author)
These dark, straightforward poems showcase the power of technology
by painting a vivid picture of America's expanding drone program and
the havoc we wreak―and then ignore―around the globe. McDonough offers
the past, present, and future as non-linear timelines, and explores how
the intersection between man and machine is starting to blur, and how
we're losing qualities essential to being human.
Author Biography
The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, Jill McDonough is the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and Where You Live (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.
