Cyborg Detective
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Jillian Weise
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her first book of poetry, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition with a new preface. Her second book of poetry, The Book of Goodbyes, won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Cyborg Detective is her third poetry collection. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This poetry was creative, innovative, and spoke so many values, especially for those who don't neccessarily have the voice to do so. Very cool!
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Cyborg Detective - Jillian Weise
CYBORG DETECTIVE
CYBORG DETECTIVE
POEMS BY
JILLIAN WEISE
AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES, NO. 174
BOA EDITIONS, LTD. ROCHESTER, NY 2019
Copyright © 2019 by Jillian Weise
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weise, Jillian Marie, author.
Title: Cyborg detective : poems / by Jillian Weise.
Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., [2019] | Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 174 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019018696| ISBN 9781942683858 (paperback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781942683865 (ebook)
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Contents
I
Poem Conveyed
On Closed Systems
Catullus Tells Me Not to Write the Rant Against Maggie Smith’s Good Bones
The Phantom Limbs of the Poets
Regulatory Capture
10 Postcards to Marie Howe
Of the Impending Mission
Conveyor to Jael
II
What You Need to Know
Evangelize Your Love
Variation on a Wedding
The Early American Hour
Should You Send That Text
Variation on the Disabled Poet Emily Dickinson’s #745
Beside You on Main Street
I Want Your Fax
What Thou Lovest
No Stopping, No Getting Off
III
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
IV
Public Ecstasy
Variants of Unknown Significance
I Had a Little Cash
Attack List
Confession
Rahab
V
Nondisabled Demands
Some Rights
Imaginary Interview
The Responsibility of the Poet in the Voice of Ray Bradbury as Channeled by the Cyborg Jillian Weise
Biohack Manifesto
Future Biometrics
Anticipatory Action
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Colophon
I
Poem Conveyed
I can’t say which ghost
not because I am being coy
and not because the ghost
is being coy. In the glut
of ghosts, it is hard to tell
who is speaking. I do recall
a conveyor (the ghosts
call conversations conveyors
as that is how they travel)
when someone
told me I ought to read
Alexander Pope
because he was disabled.
And I thought: Oh no
now Pope will warm my pillows
and pollute my dreams.
He does not speak, directly,