Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Like a ghost in the machine, TRAVESTY GENERATOR remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data. The poems pay homage to lives taken too soon, those of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, pulls heroes like Harriet Tubman into the present, and offers the wisdoms spoken by Black mothers to their children. TRAVESTY GENERATOR reminds us that programming languages and computer codes are not neutral. But while oppressive algorithms abound, the poems hack their way into new connections and possibilities for Black life.

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne: - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts- Boston, where she teaches in the UMass Boston MFA in Creative Writing Program. She has previously taught at St. Lawrence University, Ithaca College, and Williams College. She was recently named the new director of the Chautauqua Institution Writers' Festival. She is the author of the poetry collections TRAVESTY GENERATOR (Noemi Press, 2019), PERSONAL SCIENCE (Tupelo Press, 2017); a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press 2016); and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Bertram's other publications include the chapbook cutthroat glamours (Phantom Books, 2012), winner of the Phantom Books chapbook award; the artist book Grand Dessein (commissioned by Container Press), a mixed media artifact that meditates on the work and writing of the artist Paul Klee and was recently acquired by the Special Collections library at St. Lawrence University; and Tierra Fisurada, a Spanish poetry chapbook published in Argentina (Editoriales del Duende, 2002). She collaborated with the artist Laylah Ali for the exhibition booklet of her 2017 art show The Acephalous Series.

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ISBN 13	9781934819845
ISBN 10	1934819840
Titre	Travesty Generator
Auteur	Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Noemi Press
Année de publication	2019-12-15
Nombre de pages	80
Prix	Short-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2020
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