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The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. On earth everyone is worried about objects—getting them, naming them, maintaining them, destroying them, getting rid of them. Some people say objects will be the end of life on earth. Other people say objects will save us, if we get the right ones.
But as we reckon with these object-mediated futures, we live on an earth full of the stuff itself: fax machines, horseshoes, waves. Groceries is a guide for what to do about these objects—how to speak to them and how to listen for a reply.
— Srikanth Reddy
A book is a box with emptiness in it: □. This is a book. An author is university with rain inside it. This book is written by Nora Claire Miller. Who is Nora Claire Miller? ‘my name is nonce, my name is nobody, who the hell are you.’ That’s what they say in the book they wrote, which is called Groceries. Groceries is a book with emptiness in it, empty boxes, universities, rain, human beings. They look like this: □□□□□. Who the hell am I, Nora Claire Miller asks me. I am a character that my phone cannot recognize: □. There is a book here called Groceries and Nora Claire Miller is its author. Its reader is an empty box, a university, a curtain of rain, a human being. If you are one or more of those things, please check the box: □.
— Toby Altman, author of Discipline Park
Buckle up, earthlings!!! Nora Claire Miller is taking your data body to the Coral Ridge mall via deep space. They want to show you its habitat. They want you to stare into the compound eye of the machine we pay to watch us. Hey scantron crucible, hey wheel of fortune! Hey paper world, these words are scratched into the cloud that’s been messing with your head. Oh no! has been talking things over with Oh yes! Groceries is a breathtaking debut.
— Elizabeth Willis