{"product_id":"plastic-a-poem","title":"plastic: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet during a single twelve-hour night shift in an injection molding factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvoking the brevity of Seamus Heaney, plastic is an expansive and imaginative poem that offers the working class a grace, dignity, and truth not often found in contemporary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Rice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53698702803157,"sku":"9781593768034","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/1893\/3973\/files\/9781593768034.jpg?v=1776789305","url":"https:\/\/thecrookedshelfbooksbrews.com\/products\/plastic-a-poem","provider":"The Crooked Shelf, Books \u0026 Brews","version":"1.0","type":"link"}