Poetry. Poetry and 'plain language' collide in Rachel Zolf's HUMAN RESOURCES. As letters turn to digits, philosophers and coders contest meaning at the limits of language. Navigating the crumbling boundaries between page, screen, reader, engine, writer, and database, HUMAN RESOURCES investigates wasting words and words as waste-and the creative potential of salvage. "In this badmouthing 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."-Lisa Robertson

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Rachel Zolf is a poet and editor from Toronto who is presently living in New York. Her third full-length book, HUMAN RESOURCES, won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for a Lambda Award. Previous collections include Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books), MASQUE (The Mercury Press) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited several books of poetry. NEIGHBOUR PROCEDURE (Coach House Books, 2010) is her most recent book.