{"product_id":"at-the-national-monument-always-today-by-ted-dodson-copy","title":"At The National Monument \/ Always Today by Ted Dodson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor poet Ted Dodson, a poem is as much about its container, the image or the page or the book, as the “it” itself. Though in the case of his two poems\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt The National Monument\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlways Today\u003c\/em\u003e—which span three small consecutive volumes—the two are nearly synonymous. As published, the poems are an exposition of transitive structure, inter-, among, and between things, both structurally and conceptually. Inspired by a touristy snapshot of a friend—spotted on a Facebook feed—\u003cem\u003eAt The National Monument\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas written as an ode to shifting media—the medium being the message, as Marshall McLuhan would say—the page that spatializes the text, the attraction that contextualizes the tourist. Dodson’s text is expanded by blank space and near-indecipherable images, content and container twinned. As for the writing itself, these poems dwell on the interpersonal and how that relates to social and mass media, capital, and to others. People, friends, and lovers are accounted for, extinguished, then summoned back again, a virtual afterlife projected as a kind of monument. The question becomes: what is a monument, if not the medium you will it to be?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTed Dodson \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eAn Orange \u003c\/i\u003e(Pioneer Works \/ Wonder, 2021), \u003ci\u003eAt the National Monument \/ Always Today \u003c\/i\u003e(Pioneer Works, 2016), and \u003ci\u003ePop! in Spring (\u003c\/i\u003eDiez, 2013). His writing has been featured in \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe  Stinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. He works for \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e,  is an editor-at-large for \u003cem\u003eFuturepoem\u003c\/em\u003e, and is a former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Project Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ted Dodson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41400315183162,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0141\/3690\/1690\/files\/ted-dodson-at-the-national-monument.png?v=1778165878","url":"https:\/\/store.pioneerworks.org\/products\/at-the-national-monument-always-today-by-ted-dodson-copy","provider":"Pioneer Works","version":"1.0","type":"link"}