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Naturally Speaking
Sandra Alland, published by espresso Books (Toronto)
 
  • ISBN 978-0-9866214-1-3, 150 copies
  • $12.00 (£8.00)
  • poems and a short essay
  • 32 pp
  • 2012

Naturally Speaking is Sandra Alland's poetic love affair with voice-activated software.

Naturally Speaking is a limited-edition, hand-bound, numbered art book, and contains poems and a short essay. In this collection, Alland composes at the bizarre intersection of disability poetics, computer software, queer feminism and translation.

Sandra Alland is also the author of Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2004), Blissful Times (BookThug, Toronto, 2007) and Here's To Wang (Forest Publications, Edinburgh, 2009).

To order, go to the paperplates website.

To read a feature article on Naturally Speaking, click here.

 

"Alland swings like a trapeze artist between forms: from the apparent opacity of language poetry to the clarity of the lyric; from snippets of dramatic dialogue to prose; from internet URLs to geometry, all the while exploiting, at times brilliantly, the many resources of poetry."

                             – M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong,
on Sandra's previous book, Blissful Times