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Robot, Girl

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Kristine Snodgrass's first full-length solo poetry collection reads like a feminist thriller (third-wave, of course) or a terrifying sci-fi glimpse of our American future (or present!), complete with lady robots, stellar journeys, irrational fling-flang, and language yanked so alarmingly it fractals into repetitive codes, cyphers, and brash exclamation points. It's both nightmare and portal. Girl and girl noir. It's quirky, entertaining, obsessive, and scanning for trouble: one poet's vision you're too stunned to look away from. -Maureen Seaton

Product Details

PublisherJackleg Press
Publish DateFebruary 25, 2022
Pages78
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781737330769
Dimensions9.3 X 7.5 X 0.2 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry

About the Author

Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, curator, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is thrilled about the re-release of ROBOT, GIRL (formerly WAR ON PANTS). The proud founder and curator of Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets (WAAVe), Kristine searches to create an online space for women in the asemic and vispo communities to share work, offer support, and network. Kristine is Managing Editor and Editor of the WAAVe Global Gallery (Hysterical Books, 2021), an anthology of women asemic writers and visual poets. Her other books include RANK, AMERICAN APPARELL, RATHER, and OUT OF THE WORLD. She has also authored several chapbooks, including THE BURNING FIELDS, PUT THE PIE AWAY QUIETLY AND WITHOUT FERVOR, and FLEDGLING STARLET. Her poetry, asemic, and vispo work has appeared in Asemic Front 2 (AF2), decomP, Versal, Big Bridge, Brave New Word, 5_Trope, Shampoo, 2 River View, Otoliths, Slow Forward, South Florida Poetry Journal, Talking About Strawberries, Voices de la Luna, and Utsanga (Italy) among others.

Reviews

The poems in this collection wrestle with social habituation and its strident demands on the mind and body, often relaying this struggle through the viewpoint and voice of a robot. Snodgrass, through the use of repetitive language, exploits the electricity of the chant, and the power of the glitch, to shift meaning and its implications....These poems create disruption in the complacent mind and ask the reader to look askew, to look slant, for the truth of how we live. They are a powerful commentary on our modern world.

-Karla Van Vliet, author of Fluency and The River from My Mouth


What a fresh reboot. Kristine Snodgrass's eye-crossing, half-goofy/ half-enraged clatter demos how early and with what gusto this smart poet adopted her signature multi-hinged poetics. Art me, interspecies! This book's a pleasure bot built to last.

-Terri Witek, author of The Rape Kit, Body Switch, Exit Island, and The Shipwreck Dress.

Definitely a "mixed-era artifact." Robot, Girl is one of the minute: poems about a "dainty little bomb." Gender-in-the-face of Kant, Rilke but so roboty (a bow to the machine that makes us). While Snodgrass deals, words play, word-splays. Art me! Funny! Weird variant.

-Terese Svoboda, author of Trailer Girl and Other Stories and the Great American Desert.

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