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    Cyborg Detective
    Cyborg Detective
    Cyborg Detective
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    Cyborg Detective

    By Jillian Weise

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  • First printing: 3000 copies (trade paper).

  • Cyborg Detective is Jillian Weise’s third poetry collection. Her first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was re-released in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by the author in 2017. Her previous collection, The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2014), won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions.

  • HOT TOPIC: This book takes an active stance on disability rights, in particular the #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs model of disability activism and the fact that even in the present-day, the voices of people with disabilities are often sidelined in conversations about diversity, human rights, accessibility, and progressive politics.

  • Jillian Weise is a leading public intellectual writing about disability. She self-identifies as a cyborg and has a computer prosthetic for a leg. Her essays about cyborg identity, which critique transhumanist philosophies and Donna Haraway’s 1985 “The Cyborg Manifesto” as overlooking disabled people who rely on technology to survive, have been published in The New York Times and Granta. Weise’s essay, “Common Cyborg,” was the second most read article in Granta in 2018 and was featured as a Best Read of 2018.

  • Weise performs an ongoing series of satirical videos called “Tips for Writers with Tipsy Tullivan.” These performance art videos confront ableism in literary spaces and academia. One such video, “How to Write for The New York Times,” has had over 25k views on Facebook.

  • This book will have strong appeal for academics looking to expand the conversation about diversity and intersectional feminism in their reading lists. It will also have strong appeal for college administrators, healthcare workers, social workers, and nonprofit/faith-based organizations serving people with disabilities (e.g. L’Arche, MOSAIC, etc.).

  • Strong regional appeal in the Deep South, Appalachia, and other regions with high rates of disability.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781942683865
    Cyborg Detective
    Author

    Jillian Weise

    Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her first book of poetry, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition with a new preface. Her second book of poetry, The Book of Goodbyes, won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Cyborg Detective is her third poetry collection. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan.

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    Cyborg Detective - Jillian Weise

    CYBORG DETECTIVE

    CYBORG DETECTIVE

    POEMS BY

    JILLIAN WEISE

    AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES, NO. 174

    BOA EDITIONS, LTD.   ROCHESTER, NY 2019

    Copyright © 2019 by Jillian Weise

    All rights reserved

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition

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    For information about permission to reuse any material from this book, please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail permdude@gmail.com.

    Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the County of Monroe, NY. Private funding sources include the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Ames-Amzalak MemorialTrust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak, and Dan Amzalak; the LGBT Fund of Greater Rochester; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 88 for special individual acknowledgments.

    Cover Design: Sandy Knight

    Cover Art: Jennifer Rampe

    Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

    BOA Logo: Mirko

    BOA Editions books are available electronically through BookShare, an online distributor offering Large-Print, Braille, Multimedia Audio Book, and Dyslexic formats, as well as through e-readers that feature text to speech capabilities.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Names: Weise, Jillian Marie, author.

    Title: Cyborg detective : poems / by Jillian Weise.

    Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., [2019] | Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 174 | Includes bibliographical references.

    Identifiers: LCCN 2019018696| ISBN 9781942683858 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781942683865 (ebook)

    Classification: LCC PS3623.E432474 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019018696

    BOA Editions, Ltd.

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    Rochester, NY 14607

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    Contents

    I

    Poem Conveyed

    On Closed Systems

    Catullus Tells Me Not to Write the Rant Against Maggie Smith’s Good Bones

    The Phantom Limbs of the Poets

    Regulatory Capture

    10 Postcards to Marie Howe

    Of the Impending Mission

    Conveyor to Jael

    II

    What You Need to Know

    Evangelize Your Love

    Variation on a Wedding

    The Early American Hour

    Should You Send That Text

    Variation on the Disabled Poet Emily Dickinson’s #745

    Beside You on Main Street

    I Want Your Fax

    What Thou Lovest

    No Stopping, No Getting Off

    III

    Cathedral by Raymond Carver

    IV

    Public Ecstasy

    Variants of Unknown Significance

    I Had a Little Cash

    Attack List

    Confession

    Rahab

    V

    Nondisabled Demands

    Some Rights

    Imaginary Interview

    The Responsibility of the Poet in the Voice of Ray Bradbury as Channeled by the Cyborg Jillian Weise

    Biohack Manifesto

    Future Biometrics

    Anticipatory Action

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Colophon

    I

    Poem Conveyed

    I can’t say which ghost

    not because I am being coy

    and not because the ghost

    is being coy. In the glut

    of ghosts, it is hard to tell

    who is speaking. I do recall

    a conveyor (the ghosts

    call conversations conveyors

    as that is how they travel)

    when someone

    told me I ought to read

    Alexander Pope

    because he was disabled.

    And I thought: Oh no

    now Pope will warm my pillows

    and pollute my dreams.

    He does not speak, directly,

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