Get My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology PDF

an excellent number of poetry approximately innovations and inventors, genuine and imagined, assembled via editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer, writer of The Scabbard of Her Throat and a chapbook, What Remains.

“I used to be awed by way of the possible never-ending variety of ways in which poets approached the topic. evidently, there are poems approximately genuine inventions—from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs—as good as poems that conjure fantastical inventions—such as a contraption for kissing and a cheerful marriage machine.

While a few of the poems during this anthology supply searing statement at the dreadfulness of a few of the creations birthed by way of inventors, different poems supply us a view into the tales in the back of innovations, in addition to the lives of genuine and imagined inventors.

Whether invoking humor, irony, old examine, or mind's eye, the poems during this anthology communicate not just with one another, but additionally with their readers and the area at huge, in carrier to the ongoing human force to create solutions—even to difficulties we didn’t be aware of we had.”

–Bernadette Geyer

Poems by means of Alex Dreppec, Brett Foster, Clare Louise Harmon, Daniel Hales, David Mook, Donald Illich, Dorene O'Brien, F. J. Bergmann, FJP Langheim, Gwen Hart, H.M. Jones, Holly Karapetkova, J.G. McClure, Janet McNally, Jean Bonin, Jerry Bradley, Jesseca Cornelson, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Angela Edwins, Joel Allegretti, Julie E. Bloemeke, Karen Bovenmyer, Karen Skolfield, Kathryn Rickel, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Cherry, Kim Roberts, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laura Shovan, Magus Magnus, Malka Older, Marcela Sulak, Marjorie Maddox, Mia Leonin, Nolan Liebert, Norbert Gora, Rie Sheridan Rose, Rikki Santer, Robert Kenny, Sarah Key, Scott Beal, Shelley Puhak, Steven Wingate, Susan Bucci Mockler, Tanis MacDonald, Tanya Bryan, Tricia Asklar, W. Luther Jett, William Minor, and William Winfield Wright