Overview
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevensonās Human Resources is a sobering and perceptive portrait of technologyās impact on connection and power.
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Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that donāt exist. In discerning verse, she workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head named āNia,ā who her boss calls āhis typeā; she loses hours researching āJune,ā an oddly sexualized artificially intelligent oven; and she spends a whole day ātrying to breakā a female self-improvement bot. The speaker of Stevensonās poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation, even as she endeavors to solve for these problems in her daily work. She attempts to harness control by eating clean, doing yoga, and searching for age-defying skin care, though she dreams āabout the department / that women get reassigned to after they file / harassment complaints.ā With sharp, lyrical intelligence, she imagines alternative realities where women exist not for the whims of men but for their ownāwhere they become literal skyscrapers, towering over a world that never appreciated them.
Chilling and lucid, Human Resources challenges the minds programming our present and future to consider what serves the collective good. Something perhaps more thoughtful and human, Stevenson writes: āI want to say better.ā
This book title, Human Resources (Poems), ISBN: 9781571315182, by Stevenson Ryann, published by Milkweed Editions (June 14, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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