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Product Identifiers

PublisherCoach House Books

ISBN-101552451828

ISBN-139781552451823

eBay Product ID (ePID)57067172

Product Key Features

Book TitleHuman Resources

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicCanadian, General

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry

AuthorSyd Zolf

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length7.3 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'A few years in the making comes Toronto writer Rachel Zolf's magnificent and deeply rich third poetry collection, Human Resources ... Part essay on the language and ideas of other poets such as Robertson, Paul Celan, as well as language theory, Jewish theory and history, and part lyric poem, Zolf's Human Resources questions the fundamentals of what a communicative language actually is and actually means, working through the so-called effectiveness of how we relate (and fail to relate) to each other.' - Vallum

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisWrite for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and 'plain language' collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources . Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into the machine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, Human Resources explores writing as a process of encryption. Deeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, Human Resources is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen, reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste - and the creative potential of salvage., Winner of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and 'plain language' collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources . Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into themachine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, Human Resources explores writing as a process of encryption. Deeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, Human Resources is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen,reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste - and the creative potential of salvage. 'In this bad-mouthing and incandescent burlesque, Rachel Zolf transforms a necessary social anger into the pure fuel that takes us to "the beautiful excess of the unshackled referent.* We learn something new about guts, and about how dictions slip across one another, entwining, shimmering, wisecracking. For Zolf,political invention takes precedent, works the search engine.' - Lisa Robertson, Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ' plain language' collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into the machine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, Human Resources explores writing as a process of encryption.Deeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, Human Resources is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen, reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste and the creative potential of salvage.' In this bad-mouthing and incandescent burlesque, Rachel Zolf transforms a necessary social anger into the pure fuel that takes us to " the beautiful excess of the unshackled referent." We learn something new about guts, and about how dictions slip across one another, entwining, shimmering, wisecracking. For Zolf, political invention takes precedent, works the search engine.' - Lisa Robertson