{"product_id":"hivestruck-isbn-9780143137771","title":"Hivestruck","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Virtuosic . . . one of our most talented and daring poets . . . \u003ci\u003eHivestruck \u003c\/i\u003ecrackles with Toro’s critical vision and dazzling wit.” —John Keene, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePunks: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poet whose work has focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx history and identity poses the question of what makes us human, and technology’s part in that process, through a decolonial lens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVincent Toro’s third collection of poetry is a work of Latinxfuturism that confronts the enigmatic and paradoxical relationship human beings have with technology. The poems are a tapestry of meditations on social media and surveillance culture, satires on science fiction and the space race, interrogations of artificial intelligence, cyborg economics, and biohacking, and tributes to women and queer and BIPOC people who have contributed and are contributing to human survival and progress in a technology obsessed world.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHivestruck\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Toro’s latest collection is more than a reflection on technology; it is a thought-provoking celebration of creativity in the face of change. By infusing his poems with musicality, humor and profound reflections on our virtual interaction, he offers a delightful road map for navigating the challenges of the digital age without losing sight of our shared humanity.” \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, De Los Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] deep and moving poetic exploration of our digital age. With a unique and decolonized gaze, Toro immerses us in a world where human relationships and technologies are intertwined in unexpected ways. From breakups with robots to the search for a fairer economy, Toro invites us to reflect on our identity in an increasingly technological world.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople en Español\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vincent Toro’s \u003ci\u003eHivestruck\u003c\/i\u003e traces a trajectory of media with punchy lyricism, anecdotal storytelling, and relentless experiments in form, reanimating a life that can be measured by the screens one has possessed or been possessed by . . . With its diffuse structure and theoretical concentration, \u003ci\u003eHivestruck\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of the possibilities both obscured and precipitated by the limitations we impose, whether or not we know it, on ourselves.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The expansive third collection from puertoriqueño poet and performer Toro (\u003ci\u003eTertulia\u003c\/i\u003e, 2020) scrutinizes and satirizes tech-obsessed contemporary life with gigapixel resolution. Vocally, stylistically, and typographically inventive, Toro's maximalist lyrics touch on connectivity, politics, consumerism, and aesthetics in electric language . . . Brilliant and buzzing, Toro's latest underscores his place as one of the preeminent poet-prophets of the Anthropocene.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The ever-inventive Toro takes a galactic step forward in his long-standing diasporican exploration of indomitable poetic forms, developing a cyborg poetics and politics that works as a critique of imperial technocapitalism and as an imagining of its ruptures \u003cb\u003e. . . \u003c\/b\u003eAmid all the cool noise and verbivocovisual explosions and expansions, I especially enjoyed the moments when Toro shows off his lyrical and formal rigor.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIntervenxions, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Latinx Project at New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHivestruck\u003c\/i\u003e is engaging and inventive, a book that explores the boundaries of poetry then boldly expands them.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vincent Toro’s virtuosic new collection \u003ci\u003eHivestruck \u003c\/i\u003eshows how one of our most talented and daring poets engages with our socially mediated world, on screen and off, decoding and recoding to create an original aesthetic in the process. Crackling with Toro’s critical vision and dazzling wit, and utilizing an array of innovative forms and language, \u003ci\u003eHivestruck \u003c\/i\u003eis poetry from the present and future worthy of the best buzz, 'provid[ing] \u003cb\u003e. . . \u003c\/b\u003especs to build new \/ possibilities.'” \u003cb\u003e—John Keene, MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePunks: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“'The human,' writes Vincent Toro in \u003ci\u003eHivestruck\u003c\/i\u003e, 'wants nothing more than to be anything BUT human.' And how the human becomes un-human is at the heart of this rip-roaring, cosmic art project that lives in the stars, in the sea, in fractals and conceptual forms that will blast out of our devices to transform our devivified brains. In these pages the multilingual, decolonial cyborg space claws its way through empire like an orchestra of 'inimitable energy.' This is the cyber poetry of the hungry, mutating body.” \u003cb\u003e—Daniel Borzutsky, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Vincent Toro’s new work is a sweeping, and weeping, book of change, technology, old wounds, past forms and fresh approaches. \u003ci\u003eHivestruck \u003c\/i\u003eis a sensitive and deeply considered work that plays with expectations of organization, skill, and meaning. It understands how we can be supersaturated in our senses and yet feel alone, tendrils reaching toward someone, something without disappearing, being swallowed whole. In reading this book we see ourselves, even in our hidden, quiet desperation. It’s where the hope is, when we learn we are not actually by ourselves. The community of us revealing our needs, is the truth. We are actually all together in all this as we can see in Vincent’s bold poetic vision.” \u003cb\u003e—Tracie Morris, author of \u003ci\u003ehuman\/nature poems \u003c\/i\u003eand Guggenheim Fellow for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVincent Toro\u003c\/b\u003e is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and professor. He is the author of two poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eTertulia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStereo.Island.Mosaic.\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is a recipient of the Caribbean Writer’s Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theater’s Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, a Poet’s House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Writer’s Fellowship. His poetry and prose have been published in dozens of magazines and journals and have been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eSaul Williams’ CHORUS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rico En Mi Corazon, Best American Experimental Writing 2015, Misrepresented People,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Rider University, is a Dodge Foundation Poet, and is a contributing editor for Kweli Literary Journal.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301739483365,"sku":"NP9780143137771","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143137771.jpg?v=1767729117","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hivestruck-isbn-9780143137771","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}