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""You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it's a familiar pop cultural fun house-then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you're actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and bitter fun."" -Mary Gaitskill Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life, from the 1970s to the 1990s Democrats, through the collapse of the news industry, to the burlesque Trump era.

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The poet laureate of the Precariat -Barbara Ehrenreich Alissa Quart's poems are nimble and seething, capturing our baroquely scurrilous world. She writes across the holes of what's been lost, hopeless and strangely optimistic at once. -Eileen Myles Quart's poems have impeccable technique and pleasure-giving verve. A book of grit, danger, and paradoxical elegance. -Wayne Koestenbaum Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful, necessary book. -Karen E. Bender With hilarious wit and trenchant lyricism, Quart plumbs everyday experiences and late capitalism. -Celina Su PRAISE FOR QUART'S POETRY: Dense, aphoristic, playful... -The New Yorker A keen observer of our culture and a believer in the power of poetry to cut to the heart of issues around us: money, class, gender and the environment. -NPR Quart turns the insecure conditions that shape our lives today into beautiful jagged verse: the poetry of careers replaced by gigs, of workplaces transformed into WeWork, of a country with no promise, ever, of simple safety. -Barbara Ehrenreich Every movement, from splicing, to condensation to litany, has an unprecedented intensity, informative politics, surprise and audacious flair. -Wayne Koestenbaum [Quart] has perfect pitch. -The Philadelphia Inquirer [Her poems] reveal her keen sociological eye and serve as remarkably apt cultural critiques. -Publishers Weekly Quart's laser-sharp phrases...have a way of sticking around in your head long after you turn the final page. -Alternet The irony of our predicament . . . is delightfully disclosed not only in the speaker's waggish yet tempered tone, but also in the sheer refinement of [her] free verse. -The Boston Review

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Alissa Quartis the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is the author of the poetry collectionMonetizedand four non-fiction books:Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America, Republic of Outsiders, Hothouse Kids,andBranded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.Her poems have appeared inGranta, the London Review of Books, andThe Nation, among many other publications. She writesThe Guardian's""Outclassed"" column and contributes to a range of publications includingThe New York TimesandThe New York Review of Books.

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