{"product_id":"human-resources-poems","title":"Human Resources","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry\nPrize, Ryann Stevenson’s \u003ci\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea sobering and\nperceptive portrait of technology’s impact on connection and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Resources \u003c\/i\u003efollows\na woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don’t\nexist. In discerning verse, she workshops the\nfacial characteristics of a floating head named “Nia,” who her boss calls “his\ntype”; she loses hours researching “June,” an oddly sexualized artificially\nintelligent oven; and she spends a whole day “trying to break” a female\nself-improvement bot. The\nspeaker of Stevenson’s poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation, even as\nshe endeavors to solve for these problems in her daily work. She attempts to\nharness control by eating clean, doing yoga, and searching for age-defying skin\ncare, though she dreams “about the department \/ that women get reassigned to\nafter they file \/ harassment complaints.” With sharp, lyrical intelligence, she\nimagines alternative realities where women exist not for the whims of men but\nfor their own—where they become literal skyscrapers, towering over a world that\nnever appreciated them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChilling and lucid, \u003ci\u003eHuman\nResources \u003c\/i\u003echallenges the minds programming our present and future to consider\nwhat serves the collective good. Something perhaps more thoughtful and human,\nStevenson writes: “I want to say \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40306867634259,"sku":"9781571315182","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781571315182.jpg?v=1765903540","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/human-resources-poems","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}