Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative
novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to
collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI. Do You Remember
Being Born? is sensitively narrated by the aging, world-renowned
poet Marian Ffarmer. Marian's pristine life of the mind � for
which she's sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from
romance to friendship to showing up for her son � is interrupted
one day by a cryptic invitation from a tech giant. Come to
California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The
Company's lucrative offer � for Marian to compose a 'historic
partnership' of a poem with their highly intelligent poetry bot,
called Charlotte �, much as it chafes at everything she believes
about art-making as an individual pursuit, is a second chance she
cannot resist. And so to California she goes, a skeptic. But as
unexpectedly welcome to Marian as suddenly being a financially
reliable parent is her generative, growing fascination with
Charlotte.
General
Imprint: |
Astra House
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Sean Michaels
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-66260-232-0 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-66260-232-4 |
Barcode: |
9781662602320 |
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