{"product_id":"9780062663498","title":"Fast : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jorie Graham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe latest collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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.” (\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eFast \u003c\/em\u003elights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Graham’s lush, pulsing lyrics sweep across unusually wide pages in her\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003esignature style of reach and embrace, her language surging with passion yet shaped with precision. Each\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eof Graham’s poems is a daring voyage...leaving readers exhilarated and transformed.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062663498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41096804040910,"sku":"9780062663498","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062663498.jpg?v=1649305538","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062663498","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}