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Dear Alter
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I was born this way. I was made to be soft and pleasant to touch. It's the silicone. Father is considering polyvinyl chloride for my future siblings because it's cheaper. I hope you understand how special that makes me. Were you born this way too? Your...
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A first poetry collection full of telenoid daydreams
and androids in the bureaucracy.
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Description
I was born this way. I was made to be soft and pleasant to touch. It's the silicone. Father is considering polyvinyl chloride for my future siblings because it's cheaper. I hope you understand how special that makes me. Were you born this way too? Your body is not smooth but it is warm.
Exploring the ambiguities, paradoxes, and kinships between human and machine in this first poetry collection, Dear Alter, Jiaqiao Liu conjures passionate robots and open-source body hacking, password managers and fuzzy moon rovers, missed communications and learned sensations.
Drawing on Chinese mythologies and experiments in form, Liu pulls us into a world that feels familiar to twenty-first-century cybercitizens, yet is new and strange to inhabit.
Is it natural to grow up? Are you growing down? Where will I grow up to?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776711697
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 July 2025
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 16.0mm
Height: 21.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 116
About the Author
Jiaqiao Liu (they/he) is a poet from Shandong, China, who grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their writing has been included in journals including The Spinoff, badapple and OF ZOOS, as well as in anthologies such as Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2017 and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2021). Jiaqiao has an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Dear Alter is their first book.
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