Fast

Poems

by Jorie Graham

On Sale: 04/03/2018

Fast

Poems

by Jorie Graham

On Sale: 04/03/2018

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About the Book

A New York Times Notable Book

An urgent, sweeping collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham

“A fascinating mosaic that explores what it means to live and die at a time when technology is redefining our existence......moving...[an] important book.” (The Washington Post)

In her her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive collection to date Jorie Graham explores the limits of the human and the uneasy seductions of the post-human.

Conjuring an array of voices and perspectives—from bots to the holy shroud, to the ocean floor, to a medium transmitting from beyond the grave—these poems give urgent form to the ever-increasing pace of transformation of our planet and ourselves. As it navigates cyber life; 3D printed “life”; life after death; and biologically, chemically, and electronically modified life, Fast lights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink.

Critical Praise

“Fast is a great book about the nature of social life in the 21st century, a book in which past and future unfold in “every cell’’ across the vast space of a few words.” — The New York Times Book Review

“A fascinating mosaic that explores what it means to live and die at a time when technology is redefining our existence......moving...[an] important book.” — Washington Post

“Graham’s lush, pulsing lyrics sweep across unusually wide pages in her signature style of reach and embrace, her language surging with passion yet shaped with precision. Each of Graham’s poems is a daring voyage...leaving readers exhilarated and transformed.”Booklist (starred review)

“In poems both complicated and inventive, [Graham] constructs and deconstructs her core ideas through multilayered words and phrasings, compelling readers to feel what it’s like to be human in a posthuman world...stunning.” — Library Journal (starred review)

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780062663498
  • ISBN 10: 0062663496
  • Imprint: Ecco
  • On Sale: 04/03/2018
  • Pages: 96
  • List Price:25.00 CAD
  • BISAC1 : POETRY / General
  • BISAC2 : POETRY / American / General

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