The Ghettobirds
Bryant O'Hara
(Author)
Description
The Ghettobirds presents thirty works of speculative poetry that celebrate the ability of humanity to adapt to, surpass, and possibly transcend its environment and its origins. Sprinkled throughout this Afrofuturist collection are a series of recurring characters called the Ghettobirds, cybernetic beings created out of a technological singularity event that occurs in a slum. These beings exist to help humanity change itself so that, in time, it will have the capacity to leave its home world. Author Bryant O'Hara works with a love of both the natural and the artificial world, and uses rhythm and cadence to compress thought into images of just how strange our experiences can become as we learn to shape-and be shaped by-both worlds.
Product Details
| Publisher | Frayed Edge Press |
| Publish Date | June 22, 2021 |
| Pages | 94 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781642510355 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.2 inches | 0.3 pounds |
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Reviews
"The Ghettobirds is populated by a wild array of sf-steampunk-Weird characters-symbionts, biohackers, swarm robots, and a mechanical chimera all of whom combine into a "badass boombox" of a poetic choir. Bryant O'Hara's book is happily infected with the "Virus Riddim," and it will infect you, too."-Lesley Wheeler, author of The State She's In and Unbecoming
"With a vision that is sometimes dark, stark and frightening-there is body horror and predictions of forced evolutions, mutations and minor mayhem-O'Hara leavens this with humor, word play, riffing on African American tropes and vernacular."-Akua Lezli Hope, author of Them Gone
"The Ghettobirds is solidly having fun with the tropes of science and SF, "that shake the dancehalls of spacetime." It's a fabulous narrative of interaction with the divine and demonic in the context of the cosmos..."-F. J. Bergmann, Editor, Star*Line Magazine
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