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| Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9781682262139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1682262138 |
| Author | Maya Salameh |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Winner, 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salameh’s How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly unassailable technological constructs like algorithm, recursion, and loop into conversation with the technologies of womanhood, whether liner, lipstick, or blood. Exploring the relationships we have with our devices, she speaks back to the algorithm (“a computer’s admission to blood”), which acts simultaneously as warden, confidant, and data thief. Here Salameh boldly examines how an Arab woman survives the digitization of her body―experimenting with form to create an intimate collage of personal and neocolonial histories, fearlessly insinuating herself into the scripts that would otherwise erase her (“a code & a homily are both instructions”), and giving voice to the full mess of ritual. |
| About the Author | Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a former National Student Poet, America's highest honor for youth poets. Salameh currently serves as community organizer for Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the Arts. She is the author of the chapbook rooh, and her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, The Rumpus, ANMLY, and Mizna, among other publications. |
| Publication Date | 31 October 2022 |
| Number of Pages | 106 pages |
How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave
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