{"product_id":"call-me-spes-sara-cahill-marron-9781952335426","title":"Call Me Spes","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat a beguiling, intriguing, and evocative book is Sara Marron's \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes.\u003c\/em\u003e It entails a Virgilian journey undertaken by its disembodied narrator, an iOS device who gradually becomes aware of the nature of its User's needs and increasingly cognizant of our ubiquitous human longing for connection. Simultaneously, this elusive narrator overhears a diverse chorus of plaintive voices, and thereby struggles to expand its understanding of people's complexity and pathos. With an eloquent power, \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes\u003c\/em\u003e charts how our suffering, pain, and loss may be relieved through our hopefulness and yearning for love. Marron's highly original book offers us a memorable exploration into the impulses, obsessions, and durability of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Maurya Simon, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wilderness, \u003c\/em\u003e 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal in Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Marron's new book brightens the world with innovative lines and animated poems. This cumulative tale is storytelling at its highest-tenderness combined with jazzlike words set against \"data mixing\" idioms. You don't have to know Dante's Divine Comedy to enjoy the journey because iOS will be your narrator. Current computer language, ie: \"pixels\" and \"coding,\" share the page with ancient thrusts of danger, loss, and love. I applaud this writer's poetic will, her originality, range and dynamic -beyond personality and flair-to become a poetry inventor. \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary adventure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe operating system of this book seeks to find poetry in an online universe of eclectic voices, with dramatic monologues popping up from members of a human chorus seeking jobs, love, information, good times, spiritual sustenance. You feel like you're sitting in on an AA meeting filled with tales of desperation or concealed near a prison pay phone listening to inmates talk to their loved ones. Sara Marron asks, \"d0es this 100k like Eng 1 ish?\" \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes\u003c\/em\u003e does not always resemble conventional writing, but these inventive texts uncover the real language of contemporary screen-life-\"a hopeful\/desire code\/ hope hope\/they\/can read\/ that code.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Terence Winch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo say that Sara Marron's \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour of various contemporary Infernos and Purgatorios by way of memory as recorded and as learned by computers in computer language is to suggest the detached and disembodied voice of a machine, but what the computer has recorded is in fact a set of hard lives caught in the process of fragmentation. The computer learns their language, however imperfectly, and tries to apply it to a relation of love addressed to the user. The result is a virtuosic commedia-tragedy: a disembodied yet weeping god's-eye view of human desperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-George Szirtes, poet, translator, T.S. Eliot Prize winner for poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sara Marron's \u003cem\u003eCall Me Spes, \u003c\/em\u003e technology is a beguiling lover: she lures us out of ourselves, coaxes from us our most intimate secrets, and perfuses our consciousness. She peers out into the inferno, shrewdly observes its poor and ravaged, and spits out words of longing they have yearned for: \"come closer\/ your fingerprint pressed against me\/ only yours ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Author of \u003cem\u003eShahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Cahill Marron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952335426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952335426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhat, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d","brand":"Sara Cahill Marron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070006391039,"sku":"9781952335426","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8596e037-dd80-473a-9d2b-897d806aedf1.jpg?v=1685427794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/call-me-spes-sara-cahill-marron-9781952335426","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}