Fast: Poems - Softcover

Jorie Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062663496 ISBN 13: 9780062663498

Publisher: HarperOne, 2018

Synopsis

The latest 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.” (TheWashington Post)

In her first new collection in five years—her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive 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, 

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About the Author

Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position previously.

From the Back Cover

In her first new collection in five years her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062663496
• ISBN 13: 9780062663498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96