Jillian Weise

Cyborg Detective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part invective, part love poem, Cyborg Detective holds a magnifying glass to the marginalization and fetishization of disabled people while claiming space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants every day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 137g
• ISBN-13: 9781942683858
• ISBN-10: 1942683855
• Artikelnr.: 55555105

Autorenporträt

Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her first book of poetry, The Amputee's Guide to Sex, was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition with a new preface. Her second book of poetry, The Book of Goodbyes, won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Cyborg Detective is her third poetry collection. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan.