Jorie Graham, poet, writer and academic, was recently interviewed by Sarah Howe for Prac Crit. You can read the full interview and intro piece by Jorie here.
Jorie's new collection, Fast, was published in June, and is her first new collection in five years. This leading American poet returns with her most exhilarating, personal, and formally inventive work to date. In Fast Graham’s long, pliant line takes sense as far as it can go, exploring the limits of the human and the dark seductions of the post-human. Conjuring an array of voices and perspectives – from bots to the holy shroud, the ocean floor and a medium transmitting from beyond the grave — these poems give form to the increasingly rapid transformation of our planet and ourselves. As it navigates cyber life; 3d-printed ‘life’; life after death; and biologically, chemically, and electronically modified life, Fast lights up the border of our new condition as individuals and as a species on the brink. It is a collection of political urgency, as Sarah Howes states 'I started to notice how often the word ‘breaking’ cropped up as she spoke about Fast...now with reference to a political system, now an ailing body, now a line of poetry, now the live feed of real-time news.'
You can get Jorie's new collection Fast here.
