{"product_id":"do-you-remember-being-born-hardcover","title":"Do You Remember Being Born? - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2023 - \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire, Inside Hook, Our Culture Magazine, WIRED\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] timely and lovely new novel.\" --Lincoln Michel, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A compassionate and lyrical portrait . . . \u003ci\u003eDo You Remember Being Born?\u003c\/i\u003e far outshines its peers.\" --Terry Nguyen, Boston Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sean Michaels has already written the definitive novel about art in the age of AI.\" --Kate Knibbs, WIRED \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI, named Charlotte \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making--but only now, at 75 years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet's accomplishments don't necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian's pristine life of mind--for which she's sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from romance to friendship to motherhood--has come at a cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The Company's lucrative offer--for Marian to co-author a poem in a 'historic partnership' with their cutting-edge poetry bot, named Charlotte--chafes at everything she believes about artmaking as an individual pursuit . . . yet, it's a second chance she can't resist. And so to California she goes, a sell-out and a skeptic, for an encounter that will unsettle her life, her work and even her understanding of kinship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labor, capital, family, and community, \u003ci\u003eDo You Remember Being Born?\u003c\/i\u003e is Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's empathetic response to some of the most disquieting questions of our time--a defiant and joyful recognition that if we're to survive meaningfully at all, creative legacy is to be reimagined and belonging to one's art must mean, above all else, belonging to the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean Michaels is a novelist, short story writer and critic. He is the founder of pioneering music blog Said the Gramophone. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eUs Conductors\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wagers\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.06 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695738720319,"sku":"9781662602320","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7fcc068dd68fcad4dc2fb83d16e51265.webp?v=1765004894","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/do-you-remember-being-born-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}