Human Resources

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Poems

By Ryann Stevenson

Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Winner ($10,000 purse)

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Human Resources by Ryann Stevenson offers a sobering and perceptive portrait of technology's impact on human connection and power dynamics. The speaker wrestles with feelings of unease and isolation while attempting to manage these challenges through practices like clean eating and yoga. Through sharp, lyrical intelligence, Stevenson envisions alternate realities where women assert their own power, becoming towering figures above a world unappreciative of them. The collection challenges readers to reconsider what better, more thoughtful, and humane futures might look like.
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry that examines technology, feminism, and the complexities of human connection. It is suitable for those drawn to lyrical explorations of societal issues and fans of thoughtful, modern poetry.

"Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this debut collection of poetry follows a woman who designs women who don't exist"--

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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson's Human Resources offers a sobering and perceptive portrait of technology's impact on connection and power.

Human Resources features a speaker who grapples with uneasiness and isolation, even as she attempts to solve these problems in her daily work. She seeks control by eating clean, doing yoga, and searching for age-defying skincare, though she dreams "about the department / that women get reassigned to after they file / harassment complaints." With sharp, lyrical intelligence, she imagines alternative realities where women exist not for the whims of men but for their own—where they become literal skyscrapers, towering over a world that never appreciated them.

Chilling and lucid, Human Resources challenges the minds programming our present and future to consider what serves the collective good. Stevenson writes with a thoughtful and human approach: "I want to say better."

Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Winner ($10,000 purse)

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Human Resources

By Ryann Stevenson

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Elisa Gabbert of the New York Times commends Stevenson's debut for capturing an eerie, 'Black Mirror' atmosphere where A.I. blurs reality, combining nightmare and fantasy. Gabbert highlights the poet's skill in portraying isolation within technology-driven connection, noting that these poems echo Kafkaesque hopefulness tempered by resignation. The work is celebrated for its intense emotional insight and exploration of gender within a male-dominated tech environment.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781571315182

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Milkweed Editions

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Ryann Stevenson Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Winner ($10,000 purse)

About the Author

Ryann Stevenson is the author of Human ResourcesHer poems have appeared inthe Adroit Journal,American Letters & Commentary,Bennington Review,Columbia Poetry Review,Cortland Review,Denver Quarterly, andLinebreak, among others.She lives in Oakland, California.

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