Description:
Ordinary, nonlinear speculations of the romantic longings between a data worker and the artificial intelligence which she serves.
Brief description:
Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet and performer. They have received fellowships from Theater Mitu, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Arts Center Residency 2021), Lambda Literary, Poets House, and Franconia Sculpture Park. Their poems appear in The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Apogee, Nat. Brut, among others. Chen is the author of the chapbook Manifesto, or: Hysteria (Big Lucks, 2019). They live in Brooklyn.
Review Quotes: "Catherine Chen's BEAUTIFUL MACHINE WOMAN LANGUAGE polymorphs like polymer from poetic composition to femme body, landscape to computer terminal. Throughout, Chen refutes futurity for a present when 'fatigue is a collective noun, ' engaging the cyborg as a figure of despair. Chen's disconcerting reports stream like stunned wartime kyrons; their lyric, a black box's final output. BEAUTIFUL MACHINE WOMAN LANGUAGE is the crash site of individual and empire, the smoke still twisting before the poet's eyes; fire deep in their throat."
--Douglas Kearney