{"product_id":"hivestruck-paperback","title":"Hivestruck - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVincent Toro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Virtuosic . . . one of our most talented and daring poets . . . \u003ci\u003eHivestruck \u003c\/i\u003ecrackles with Toro's critical vision and dazzling wit.\" --John Keene, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePunks: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA poet whose work has focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx history and identity poses the question of what makes us human, and technology's part in that process, through a decolonial lens \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVincent Toro's third collection of poetry is a work of Latinxfuturism that confronts the enigmatic and paradoxical relationship human beings have with technology. The poems are a tapestry of meditations on social media and surveillance culture, satires on science fiction and the space race, interrogations of artificial intelligence, cyborg economics, and biohacking, and tributes to women and queer and BIPOC people who have contributed and are contributing to human survival and progress in a technology obsessed world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVincent Toro\u003c\/b\u003e is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and professor. He is the author of two poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eTertulia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStereo.Island.Mosaic.\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is a recipient of the Caribbean Writer's Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theater's Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, a Poet's House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Writer's Fellowship. His poetry and prose have been published in dozens of magazines and journals and have been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eSaul Williams' CHORUS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rico En Mi Corazon, Best American Experimental Writing 2015, Misrepresented People, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Rider University, is a Dodge Foundation Poet, and is a contributing editor for Kweli Literary Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726125404223,"sku":"9780143137771","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/15b9a14ab187ac66c12779f31542b76a.webp?v=1765109339","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/hivestruck-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}