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  Raise your hand if you've cancelled plans because your book is too good to put down 🙋🙋🙋🙋 For Your Reading List  Franny Choi's second poetry collection Soft Science asks us to imagine a world outside of any binary. Largely through a series of poems based on Turing tests — a test designed to see if artificial intelligence can pass for that of a human — Choi interrogates identity, treating humanity as both an applied science and a feral thing. With language that wades between saucy, dripping, curt, and sterile, the poems stare at the intersections of personhood — gender, race, sex — and laugh menacingly, pulling it all to strands. Combining the deeply carnal with the technological, Choi explores the mechanics of what it is to be alive in every sense. By invoking the bodily ("sometimes / when the sidewalk / opens my knee / i think please / please let me / remember this") and the mechanical ("A cyborg woman touches herself for three reasons: / 1. to inspect the machinery for errors; / 2. to convince herself she is a mammal; / 3. to pull herself apart.") the work asks the reader to reconsider their own rottenness and what methods of survival brought them there. I recommend this collection to anyone who wants poetry to reflect not the world they want to see, but the world they do see — pornographic, bright, wild, and changing. Get your copy now. –Rachel Dunkel (@racheldunkel) More From BuzzFeed
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