Description Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity.
A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness--how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation.
We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness.
About the author Franny Choi is a writer, performer, and educator.
She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017).
She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere.
She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective.
Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.
Alice James Books Soft science, paperback/franny choi
