{"product_id":"how-to-make-an-algorithm-in-the-microwave-paperback-softback-9781682262139","title":"How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (Paperback \/ softback) 9781682262139","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaya Salameh (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781682262139\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e106 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.8 x 19.9 x 0.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE\u003c\/i\u003e upends every way I’ve ever used the term ‘multilingual.’ These poems crackle with language, a cacophony of Arabic and English and French and code and formal invention and song lyrics and photographs and footnotes. Maya Salameh gives everything a voice—speakers across many comings of age, cities, pop stars, the digital world—and the result is lush and orchestral, searing and intelligent and incredibly fun. We are so lucky. I am so lucky, to read and learn from Maya Salameh, luminous inventor, luminous interrogator.”—Safia Elhillo, author of \u003ci\u003eThe January Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Maya Salameh’s \u003ci\u003eHOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE\u003c\/i\u003e carries the echo of the wild diasporic future in the late American empire of now. Employing computer code, Punnett squares, experimental prayers, and anarchic prose, Salameh writes herself a homeland made of a language redolent of celebrated flesh, a zajal between Fairouz and Amy Winehouse. ‘I pull at the serifs on words,’ she writes in ‘Case Study on Me \u0026amp; Sunlight’: ‘the old meanings \/ of rain. there are still some joints in \/ my elbows I have never \/ read.’ Point to any page and you’ll say, psalm. You’ll say, not dead. You’ll see: future.”—Philip Metres, author of \u003ci\u003eSand Opera\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShrapnel Maps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The astonishingly inventive forms in \u003ci\u003eHow to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave\u003c\/i\u003e stretch our capacity as readers while exploring the shimmering potential of images and verbs: ‘\u0026amp; if hail appears my language might daughter itself into wheat.'” —Layla Benitez-James, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salameh’s \u003ci\u003eHow to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly unassailable technological constructs like algorithm, recursion, and loop into conversation with the technologies of womanhood, whether liner, lipstick, or blood. Exploring the relationships we have with our devices, she speaks back to the algorithm (“a computer’s admission to blood”), which acts simultaneously as warden, confidant, and data thief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here Salameh boldly examines how an Arab woman survives the digitization of her body—experimenting with form to create an intimate collage of personal and neocolonial histories, fearlessly insinuating herself into the scripts that would otherwise erase her (“a code \u0026amp; a homily are both instructions”), and giving voice to the full mess of ritual.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52715076878616,"sku":"9781682262139","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-to-make-an-algorithm-in-the-microwave-paperback-softback-9781682262139","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}