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Cursed Objects
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Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop? In Cursed Objects, Jason Christi...
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30 April 2019

Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop? In Cursed Objects, Jason Christie recoils in horror at the thoroughness of his self, then begins to write toward a new understanding brokered between all the things that define him and who he thinks he should be and interrogates how we reduce people to words, especially online, turning them into objects.
Price: $17.95
Pages: 88
Publisher: Coach House Books
Imprint: Coach House Books
Publication Date:
30 April 2019
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781552453841
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / Canadian / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, POETRY / General
Jason Christie is the author of Canada Post (Snare), i-ROBOT (Edge/Tesseract), Unknown Actor (Insomniac), and a co-editor of Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury). He has published extensively in online and print journals, and has published over twenty chapbooks; five of his favourites are from above/ground press, including: The Charm (2015), random_lines = random.choice (2017), and glass language (2018).