These dark, straightforward poems showcase the power of technology by painting a vivid picture of America's expanding drone program and the havoc we wreak―and then ignore―around the globe. McDonough offers the past, present, and future as non-linear timelines, and explores how the intersection between man and machine is starting to blur, and how we're losing qualities essential to being human. “McDonough works to humanize the technologies that carry out our most dreadful acts and forces us to examine the ways in which we abandon—or, perhaps more accurately, ignore—our agency in order to protect our fragile consciences.” — Hobart “While it may sound as if  Reaper  is a grim book, full of dire poems on technology, the opposite is true. This is a most human book, peppered with poems that reveal human emotions.” — Rain Taxi “It’s a dark, and darkly hilarious, book that manages to delight and disturb at the same time.” — Minnesota Public Radio “…knowing what you don’t know can turn out to be more than enough. Jill McDonough’s new book […]broods over the technology of war — in particular the development of robots, drones and other methods of outsourcing human intelligence and morality to code and circuits.” —David Orr,  The New York Times Book Review “McDonough examines the distancing of culpability and repercussions that follow when there’s a computer screen and a continent between a soldier and the dead. . . . Her writing is gritty and unapologetic, refusing to let even the reader off the hook.” — Literary Hub “ Reaper  knocked me flat with its utter breathlessness, its grim and terrifying lyricism, and its relentless re-angling of the magical haven we like to call the future. In deftly crafted stanzas that shove urgently at our perceptions, McDonough paints a stark picture of a soulless tomorrow ruled by the technologies of convenience—a tomorrow we just might stop if we could.” —Patricia Smith “Words that come to mind to describe Jill McDonough’s agile, alert poems are: humanity, sociability, clear-eyed, oxygen-filled, and humor. Also: morally serious and deeply thoughtful. Reaper’s such a readable book—in tone, so intimate and cheerful—that one almost doesn’t notice that it’s full of poems about technology, death, and war. Also love, also hope: ‘…we have all the time anybody else/in the world gets. All the time we need to say/the right thing, find new right things to say.’” —Daisy Fried Advertising in American Poetry Review , Poets & Writers , The Writers Chronicle , American Poet , and others. - Advance reading copies sent to The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, NPR, Poets & Writers Magazine and many more. - Email blast, social media campaign through AJB's Facebook and Twitter accounts. - Author readings and events advertised on AJB website and social media (Facebook, Twitter). - Press kit and sample poem featured on AJB website. - Entry in post-publication awards, including Pushcart Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and others. The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, Jill McDonough is the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and Where You Live (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.