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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Travesty Generator

Travesty Generator

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1934819840
ISBN13: 9781934819845
Publisher: Noemi Press
Published: Dec 15 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Awards

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.

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