Purchase Info
- SOLD OUT; email cachin AT blissfultimes DOT ca for info
Highlights
- co-winner of the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award
- limited edition; hand-sewn with French flaps; 32 pages
- poetry and essay examining disability poetics, gender and assistive technology
- published by Espresso Books, Toronto, 2012
Description
Naturally Speaking is a limited-edition, hand-bound, numbered art book of poems and a short essay.
“Naturally Speaking is Sandra Alland’s poetic love affair with voice-activated software. In this collection, Alland composes at the bizarre intersection of disability poetics, assistive technology, queer feminism, gender and translation.”
Excerpts from Naturally Speaking have been published in Fit To Work: Poets Against ATOS and Versus Versus: 100 Poems from Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe Books).
Watch/listen to a captioned video of San reading from Naturally Speaking on YouTube.
Reviews
Sandra Ridley and kevin mcpherson, 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award
“Elegant and electric… this collection is a truth towards ineffable laughter and new language junctions. Alland’s poems come from the disquieting collaboration between artificial intelligence and speak to/from/of the processes of translation, identity and pain.”
rob mclennan
“…echoes elements of language poetry, allowing the language to pinball and spark.”