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- With acerbic aplomb, Jillian Weise's latest collection of poems investigates disability and ableism in the literary canon.
- Author(s): Jillian Weise
- 112 Pages
- Poetry, American
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About the Book
Weise's latest collection holds a magnifying glass to the marginalization and fetishization of disabled people while claiming space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants every day.Book Synopsis
With acerbic aplomb, Jillian Weise's latest collection of poems investigates disability and ableism in the literary canon.Review Quotes
"With a voice that is sassy, funny, and justifiably bitter, Weise sets ableist America - and America's literary subcultures -- straight about a number of things in her third collection, in which every line snaps and many of them sting."
--Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Poetry Preview 2019
"Here--and almost nowhere else in American poetry--we have an anarchic sharp-fanged satirist of the very first rank."
--RHINO
"Cyborg Detective looks into the past as it pushes into the future. Moving deftly between engaging with canonical authors and broken engagements, between Torah and Tinder, Weise focuses on the many ways we see the parts and not the whole and the consequences thereof."
--American Literary Review
"Always sharp-witted, sophisticatedly savvy, and commanding in surprisingly vulnerable ways, Weise's poems remind me that the stakes are high, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun."
--The Rumpus
"Anger, clarity, an unrelenting unforgiving ear; funny, hot, intelligent, wise, challenging, outrageous and cool. Jillian Weise is simply among the small league of my favorite poets on earth. With Cyborg Detective she's even more so. She's ONLY AWAKE and freely and incisively shares all that comes with that awesome and sinuous burden."
--Eileen Myles
"The poems in Jillian Weise's Cyborg Detective concern the nature of affliction. Which is not to say it's not humorous; it is, in fact, hilarious, deeply and darkly so. Populated with a variety of voices that speak with a sort of sly candor that can only be prompted by the most intimate of inquiries, this book is a true ventriloquist act. With a thrilling lack of remorse, Weise targets the mundane viciousness of everyday hypocrisy like a heat-seeking missile."
--Cate Marvin
"These poems are brilliant and funny and sad and utterly essential. They will completely unravel you in the most marvelous possible way."
--Lev Grossman
"Cyborg Detective investigates the way we peer into the Abled world, and finds confusion and terror in the reflection. It is a relief and joy to read."
--Karolyn Gehrig, creator of #HospitalGlam