{"product_id":"plastic","title":"Plastic","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePlastic\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMatthew Rice\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781593768034\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSoft Skull\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet during a single twelve-hour night shift in an injection molding factory, \u003ci\u003eplastic\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labor in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a \"post-industrial,\" \"post-Troubles\" society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker's experience, Rice meditates on masculinity, sectarianism, and intergenerational trauma. But at its core is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labor--making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvoking the brevity of Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eplastic\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive and imaginative poem that offers the working class a grace, dignity, and truth not often found in contemporary literature.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Plastic | Matthew Rice | Paperback | 9781593768034 | New | Poetry 1733339","offer_id":48168034959512,"sku":"1733339","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91VSg-MRrvL.jpg?v=1771961823","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/plastic","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}