{"id":6554730496089,"title":"Laughing Cult — McCaffrey '79","handle":"laughing-cult-mccaffrey-79","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kevin McCaffrey, Class of 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's \u003ci\u003eManual of Piety\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems of \u003ci\u003eLaughing Cult\u003c\/i\u003e often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art, this first collection includes numerous poems that have appeared on the \u003ci\u003eExquisite Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e website. To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that's the challenge \u003ci\u003eLaughing Cult\u003c\/i\u003e has set for itself. These are two-dimensional poems for a one-dimensional age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-02T11:55:10-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-02T11:55:09-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"price":1395,"price_min":1395,"price_max":1395,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1395,"compare_at_price_min":1395,"compare_at_price_max":1395,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39293517398105,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA343-McCaffrey","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Laughing Cult — McCaffrey '79","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1395,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1395,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781940423005","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba343-mccaffrey-laugh.jpg?v=1617378911"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba343-mccaffrey-laugh.jpg?v=1617378911","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Laughing Cult, Poems by Kevin McCaffrey","id":20320237551705,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba343-mccaffrey-laugh.jpg?v=1617378911"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba343-mccaffrey-laugh.jpg?v=1617378911","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kevin McCaffrey, Class of 1979\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's \u003ci\u003eManual of Piety\u003c\/i\u003e, the poems of \u003ci\u003eLaughing Cult\u003c\/i\u003e often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art, this first collection includes numerous poems that have appeared on the \u003ci\u003eExquisite Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e website. To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that's the challenge \u003ci\u003eLaughing Cult\u003c\/i\u003e has set for itself. These are two-dimensional poems for a one-dimensional age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}