Operating System - Böcker

2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Finalist. JP Howard's debut collection, SAY/MIRROR , is a dialogue of history and memory, reflecting on and integrating vintage photographs of her mother, Ruth King (a fairly well known African Americ...

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"In the tragi-comic-and worse-chaos of our times-suppose our writing began to appear as letters caught in barcodes. Phrases and bits of words breaking off en route to scanners designed for registering information but not the disturbance of meaning...

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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Movement Studies. Dance. '"[I]n the slow gestures / of a person adjusting / to too much light' and with the faith of a chemist, Stephanie Heit sets fire inside her ...

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"Johnny Damm's Science of Things Familiar diagrams the ways we move toward and away from one another, exploring relationship through the failures and disjuncts that reveal it. In annotated illustrations taken out of their original context, in...

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The quantum world, like the mystical, is anonymous, aporetic, hidden. In order to view this strange realm—one filled with particles darting in and out of nowhere; of what Einstein once famously called “spooky action at a distance&rdquo...

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"She is not dead, but sleeping, Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke; like the sick girl of that verse, the speakers of Joanna Valente's sharp and urgent ¿Marys of the Sea¿¿ toss and turn through a series of feverish nightmares that refract lived...

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"At long last here's Bill Considine's considered, rollicking, breezy, deep, avant-post take on what Poetry is, what Theater is, and what happens when these arts tumble dance through history together only to land simultaneously on page and sta...

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Drawing on the work of such thinkers as John McPhee, Rachel Carson, Timothy Morton, Frank White, and others, LOST CITY HYDROTHERMAL FIELD explores philosophies of nature old and new through poetry and science fiction. The anthropocene crisis and t...

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"Poetry is rightly destroyed and rebuilt in the abrasive caress of we whose claims upon the human, having constantly been denied by man, put the human to the test. It's still held by many to be a scientific fact that the humanities are not for us....

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As part of the Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts series, The OS presents FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS , a revised and expanded version of Jerome Rothenberg's variations on a set of traditional Yaqui Indian Deer Dance songs, with computer-generated drawings ...

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Blood Atlas charts body, mind and geography across and through each other. This short collection of texts written by non-binary artist and scholar Lynne DeSilva-Johnson between 2007-2012 marks the longitude and latitude of each poem's writing, cha...

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“'By the fear in her face I don’t think she knows realness,' writes Blake Nemec in his disarmingly original book  Sharing Plastic . And what’s real here is the “banter” of sex and hotel workers that in spect...

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"BORN AGAIN is an ecstatic disquisition on the psychic, sensual and cerebral power of religious experience. In a crucible of direct encounter with the Holy Spirit, towering and oppressive mental structures are deranged and reshaped into a dynamic ...

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"In The Book of Everyday Instruction —which presents a body of work developed between 2015 and 2018, split into eight chapters—Bass radicalizes the language through which we experience, navigate, and discuss intimacy. She surrenders th...

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SUSURROS A MI PADRE represents Erick Senz's efforts to connect language and culture, family and loss. The book charts the author's fractured relationship with his father: a man whose Mexican blood he inherited. Senz collages memories, first-hand a...

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"L. Ann Wheeler’s powerful debut examines why we leave and what happens to those who stay. This richly layered multi-genre book digs deep into personal and collective histories through archival investigation and imaginative rendering, reanim...

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"So often our urgencies upend themselves into absurdities. Lyric turns to joke and then to pugnacious elegy. So in Flatt’s and Mund’s Chlorosis , a dying world becomes a dynamic collaboration. Given options that find us 'imping toward ...

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'The Book of Sounds,' released as a dual language edition as part of The Operating System's "Glossarium :: Unsilenced Texts" series, is Mehdi Navid’s first novelette, translated from the Farsi by Tina Rahimi. The book was not publishable in ...

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"In a story of William Carlos Williams as a child, told by his mother, the poet puts the wrong shoes on the wrong feet by accident and upon realizing it, leaves them on for a while thinking about how weird it feels. Anne Gorrick does something lik...

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"It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing  (the title alone says something about the condition of poetry) is a refined review of the work of ...

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" Attendance  is a meditation, an ushering-in of the kind of mindfulness that life deserves. One that leaves readers like me nodding and saying yes to lines like these: ‘Just try to want different things’ and ‘You can do any...

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"Gregory Crosby’s poetry matches an extensive knowledge of literary form with a curator’s eye for the idiosyncrasies of our popular culture. He zooms in on familiar scenes of contemporary life – 'Lonely Starbucks Lovers,' 'Netfli...

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"Filip Marinovich is one of my favorite living poets! He has lived his poems for many years now and we can trust he means it when he says, 'the tree's boyfriend is me / trim the pubes / and get ready for the muse.' Dendrophiliacs have a new champi...

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How does a person begin to enumerate the many fragments & fractals that comprise a life? field guide is an attempt at memoir through the lens of various animals & minerals including katydids, wrens, abalone shells, and apple trees. "What is a...

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Needles of Itching Feathers  finds pleasure’s pulse in the precarious state of the psychological (and bodily) fascia still keeping us human. As the tissue stretches and tears, birds fly in.

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" Greater Grave  is a gorgeous collection that is simultaneously well-crafted and intuitive as well as equally cryptic and explicit. Jacq Greyja deftly unravels and retangles language, bringing to question its ability to make sense of the mat...

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"These companionable, searching, smart, smart-ass diary-poems—one per week of pregnancy—talk their human into the baby moving through her into love, racism, climate change, kitties who turn into tigers, domination/damnation of capital,...

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"In the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd, We, The Monstrous  is a brilliant work of resistance that maps the paths that have brought us to the edge of the abyss. Mark DuCharme’s script for an 'unrealizable film' examines our ...

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"This is a text about the problem of being and the problem of matter: what matters, but also how being is matter, and what that feels like, what it can mean. The body is here but in pieces, promises, refusals, apparitions. Sometimes you know it on...

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"Yo zillion pilgrims, Lori Anderson Moseman’s 'Y' will transmogrify your hopeless chromosome. Text as performance installation, activist play practice, and you could be anyone in the colony working against collapse. There...

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