
Human Resources
Syd Zolf(Author)
Coach House Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-55245-182-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55245-182-3 (9781552451823)
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Rachel Zolf is the author of two poetry collections: Masque (Mercury Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and Her absence, this wanderer (Bus-chekbooks, 1999), which was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. Zolf lives in Toronto and was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine.