by Joyelle McSweeney (Author)
Set in a spaced-out future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency," FLET is named for its female protagonist, an Administration flunky who begins to suspect that the Emergency may be a tool of sociopolitical oppression. An elegant entry in speculative fiction, Flet finds McSweeney slowing her distinctively hyperactive imagination down to the speed of narrative.
Author Biography
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the poetry collections The Red Bird, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Percussion Grenade, Toxicon & Arachne, and Death Styles; the novel Flet, the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and the essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (a work of decadent ecopoetics). With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others.