Fast: Poems

Fast: Poems

<p><strong>The first new collection of poetry in five years from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham</strong></p><p><strong>“Graham’s great body of work has more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing. . . . She is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: she changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark.” —<em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p>In her first new collection in five years—her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive to date—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, biologically, chemically, and electronically modified life,<em> Fast</em> lights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink.</p><p><em></em> </p>