{"product_id":"discipline-park","title":"Discipline Park by Toby Altman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToby Altman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscipline Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e documents the demolition of Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, a landmark of architectural brutalism designed by Bertrand Goldberg in the 1970s. Altman was born in the building, and years later, was employed by Northwestern University when they tore it down. His personal proximity to the site leads to a wider critical evaluation of the cruelty of a neoliberalism that asks us to draw sustenance from the very institutions that poison and erase our bodies, habitats, and histories. But, as it indicts the present and its claustrophobic, ruinous politics, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscipline Park\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealso recovers or reinvents utopian vistas through an extended engagement with Goldberg's architectural practices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToby Altman's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscipline Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the 2020 Open Reading Period Editors’ Pick.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/tobyaltman.com\/\"\u003eToby Altman\u003c\/a\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eArcadia, Indiana\u003c\/em\u003e (Plays Inverse, 2017), as well as several chapbooks, including \u003cem\u003eEvery Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg\u003c\/em\u003e (Except One), winner of the 2018 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. His poems can be found in \u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ejubilat\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLana Turner\u003c\/em\u003e, and other journals and anthologies. He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wendy's Subway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40607968428141,"sku":"ALTMAN001","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/4771\/1085\/products\/Altman_DisciplinePark_Cover_web.png?v=1681231165","url":"https:\/\/shop.wendyssubway.com\/products\/discipline-park","provider":"Wendy's Subway","version":"1.0","type":"link"}