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Travesty GeneratorLillian-Yvonne Bertram

Travesty Generator

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
201980 pages
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"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…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2019
    Noemi Press · 80 pages · 9781934819845
  • Other · English · 2019
    Noemi Press · 9781955992312
African AmericansPoetryCrimes againstRacismAmerican Experimental poetryComputer poetryAmerican poetryAmerican literature