Cross Cultural Poetics

XCP reviews Human Resources

By Joel Bettridge
XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics
Winter 08

Rachel Zolf's new book of poems, Human Resources, enters the tradition of innovative poets writing about Capital by joining it with her exploration of what it means to occupy a lyric subject in our own cultural moment. The book -- through its use of poetry generating programs, corporate instructions for writers, and word database lists -- fashions a subject recognizable to us, one that is multiple and shaped by the IMF, the WTO, and our personal, unavoidable shopping and employment conditions.

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