Are you Borg now? / Said Shaiye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Said Shaiye, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Somali Americans--Biography.

Somali Americans.

Autobiographical poetry.

Refugees--Somalia--Biography.

Refugees.

Refugees--United States--Biography.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

[Tucson, Arizona] : Noemi Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye's cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"With an introducation by Douglas Kearney" -- from cover.

Place of publication from publisher's website.

ISBN:

1955992614

9781955992619

OCLC:

1517623547

Publisher Number:

90102203020