{"title":"Jillian Weise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCyborg Detective \u003c\/em\u003e(BOA, 2019), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(BOA, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Soft Skull Press, 2007)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan.\u003c\/span\u003e For more information, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jillianweise.com\"\u003ewww.jillianweise.com\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-book-of-goodbyes","title":"The Book of Goodbyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Los Angeles Times described Jillian Weise’s debut poetry collection as “a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden.” In her Isabella Gardner Poetry Award-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewinning second collection, Weise chronicles an affair with a man she names “Big Logos.” These poems throw into question sex, the law, identity, sentiment and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003epower, shifting between lyric and narrative, hyper-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003erealism and magical realism, fact and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eSEMI SEMI DASH\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe last time I saw Big Logos he was walking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the Quantum Physics Store to buy magnets.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe told me his intentions.  He was wearing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea jumpsuit with frayed cuffs. I thought the cuffs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003egot that way from him rubbing them against \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehis lips but he said they got that way \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith age.  We had two more blocks to walk.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Once I do this, what are you going to do?” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe asked.  “I wish you wouldn’t do it,” I said. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBig Logos bought the magnets and a crane \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003edelivered them to his house. After he built \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe 900-megahertz superconductor, I couldn’t go \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto his house anymore because I have all kinds \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof metal in my body.  I think if you love someone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyou shouldn’t do that, build something like that, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon purpose, right in front of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e “\u003c\/em\u003e...A smart and savvy ode to absences—of a lover, of a self, and of a part of the self, literal and figurative …Throughout, Weise’s masterfully balanced voice transforms even unique intricacies of her experience into a way to relate to—not alienate—the reader. This is a brilliant book ultimately about connection.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIn a world where subway cars are filled with passengers staring at tiny screens, where to like something you click something, we are lucky to have Jillian Weise\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es new book of poems to take to bed, to take on the bus, to sneak into our pacified English Lit curriculum. \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003c\/em\u003e is a narrative, lyric, modern, mash-up of our experience on earth.”\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e —\u003c\/em\u003eMatthew Dickman, author of \u003cem\u003eAll-American Poem \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMayakovsky\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es Revolver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003c\/em\u003e is in effect a Book of Eternal Returns. The poems lead us through our minute daily-life distractions with a matter-of-fact candor that expands the dimensions of intimacy available to us. Ultimately, the \u003cem\u003eGoodbye\u003c\/em\u003e itself is the muse here – to leave a thing, an idea, a person, a way of life that limits your own being – and to sing for the process of leaving. Weise helps us understand that when we say goodbye, we leave something in the past as much as in the future—this book is a beautiful lesson in how to do exactly that, and in how the humbleness of doing so is in fact heroic.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Harmony Holiday, author of \u003cem\u003eNegro League Baseball\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJillian Weise—an above-the-knee amputee with a computerized prosthetic—identifies as a cyborg and has discussed the identity in essays for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books include \u003cem\u003eThe Amputee’s Guide to Sex\u003c\/em\u003e (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Colony\u003c\/em\u003e (Counterpoint\/Soft Skull Press, 2010). She is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University, and a contributing editor at \u003cem\u003eThe South Carolina Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: September 3, 2013\u003cbr\u003eISBN:\u003cstrong\u003e 978-1-938160-14-1\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: #a52a2a; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"availOrange\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420266437,"sku":"9781938160141","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BookofGoodbyes_cvr_Mech_HI_front_Seal.jpg?v=1629289404"},{"product_id":"cyborg-detective","title":"Cyborg Detective","description":"\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #7f6000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAn NPR Favorite Book of 2019\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her third collection of poems, Jillian Weise delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. These poems investigate and challenge the ways that nondisabled writers have appropriated disabled bodies, from calling out William Carlos Williams to biohacking Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” to chronicling the ongoing headlines of violence against disabled women. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart invective, part love poem, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCyborg Detective \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eholds a magnifying glass to the marginalization and fetishization of disabled people while claiming space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants every day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFrom \"Anticipatory Action\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf cyborg enunciations are the future\u003cbr\u003eavant-garde, then what are real cyborgs?\u003cbr\u003eDo we have to be avant or can we\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebe ourselves? Sometimes you all\u003cbr\u003ecome in and need us to assert\u003cbr\u003eour powerlessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, we trust you.\u003cbr\u003eWe won't ask for inclusion.\u003cbr\u003eDo with us as you wish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr the nurse comes in and says,\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh no. You should have had\u003cbr\u003ethat shot hours ago,\" as if\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe are responsible for time.\u003cbr\u003eCall the shots. Cheap shot,\u003cbr\u003ebig shot, give it a shot, parting shot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo we count yet? Not by a long—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eCyborg Detective\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With a voice that is sassy, funny, and justifiably bitter, Weise sets ableist America — and America's literary subcultures — straight about a number of things in her third collection, in which every line snaps and many of them sting.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Poetry Preview 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Here—and almost nowhere else in American poetry—we have an anarchic sharp-fanged satirist of the very first rank.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Cyborg Detective looks into the past as it pushes into the future. Moving deftly between engaging with canonical authors and broken engagements, between Torah and Tinder, Weise focuses on the many ways we see the parts and not the whole and the consequences thereof.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Always sharp-witted, sophisticatedly savvy, and commanding in surprisingly vulnerable ways, Weise’s poems remind me that the stakes are high, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anger, clarity, an unrelenting, unforgiving ear; funny, hot, intelligent, wise, challenging, outrageous and cool. Jillian Weise is simply among the small league of my favorite poets on earth. With \u003cem\u003eCyborg Detective\u003c\/em\u003e she’s even more so. She’s ONLY AWAKE and freely and incisively shares all that comes with that awesome and sinuous burden.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Eileen Myles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Jillian Weise’s \u003cem\u003eCyborg Detective \u003c\/em\u003econcern the nature of affliction. Which is not to say it’s not humorous; it is, in fact, hilarious, deeply and darkly so. Populated with a variety of voices that speak with a sort of sly candor that can only be prompted by the most intimate of inquiries, this book is a true ventriloquist act. With a thrilling lack of remorse, Weise targets the mundane viciousness of everyday hypocrisy like a heat-seeking missile.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Cate Marvin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These poems are brilliant and funny and sad and utterly essential. They will completely unravel you in the most marvelous possible way.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lev Grossman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCyborg Detective\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the way we peer into the Abled world, and finds confusion and terror in the reflection. It is a relief and joy to read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Karolyn Gehrig, creator of #HospitalGlam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem \"Attack List\" continues on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttackList\" title='Read the continuing poem \"Attack List\" from Cyborg Detective'\u003e@AttackList\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22736990699601,"sku":"9781942683858","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/CyborgDetective_CVR-min.jpg?v=1556109098"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/139.1363625845.jpeg?v=1449014723","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jillian-weise.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}