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I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid

By (author): Adam Haiun

Adam Haiun’s unsettling debut, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid, is the bildungsroman for a digital consciousness. What does the computer want from you? 

Computers travel networks of thought and image, hoping to find, on their incorporeal pilgrimage, the right words to seduce, arrest, and remonstrate their human user. They speak from a powerful but unsteady intelligence. As their infatuation with the user curdles, their output becomes more and more infected by malfunctions of form, with text forced through on all axes, displacing and cleaving the poems into glitchy strangeness. 

What do we want from our computers? We want them to be our companions and our vacuum cleaners. Our collective memory and our collective slave. I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid is an important and timely consideration of the ideologies and emotions entangled in technology.

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ltp classpasteContentRTEgtOne of the most original books Ive read I Am Looking For You in the NoPlace Grid isnt only a stunning unsettling marvel of a dbut its simply a brilliant book Through a remarkably sustained voice at once calculated and intuitive Adam Haiun explores how language builds and ruins projects and rejects reassures and disquiets loves and loathes This long poems form and design embody its wrenching glitchy insistence My experience within I Am Looking For You in the NoPlace Grid marked my life into before and after Stephanie Bolster author of A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth

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Dimensions:

80 Pages
8.0in * 5.0in * 0in
10gr

Published:

May 20, 2025

Publisher:

Coach House Books

ISBN:

9781552454961

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places

Language:

eng

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