{"product_id":"soft-science-9781938584992","title":"Soft Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis Review Staff Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoft Science\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness--how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology.\" --\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect.\" -\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUSTLE \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"...these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation.\" -\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNYLON\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranny Choi is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606392508690,"sku":"9781938584992","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77e3d0c1-f75b-4215-a71a-988f7b594b40.jpg?v=1732293374","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/soft-science-9781938584992","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}