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description: Algorithmic Shapeshifting is the first poetry collection of Bogi Takcs winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction and finalist for the Hugo and Locus awards. Algorithmic Shapeshifting includes poems from the past decade and previously unpublished work. The scope of the pieces extends from the present and past of Jewish life in Hungary and the United States to the far-future outer-space reaches of the speculativealways with a sense of curiosity and wonder.Advance PraiseBogi Takcs is a poet of visceral exuberance and Talmudic invention. Moving as dazzlingly between genres as languages e makes the reader eir kaleidoscope where ancient traditions unenvisioned technologies and childrens toys tumble with ordinary transcendent precision imagining new ways of being and observing others signally extant. These poems draw blood and spark synapses make dauntingly familiar and tenderly strange. You should let them change you.Sonya Taaffe author of Forget the Sleepless ShoresBogi Takcss poetry is gleefully and unabashedly itself pulling the reader through surreal worlds of visceral magic body modification political wit and interpersonal devotion. Whether looking back into Talmudic history forward into a science fictional psychic war or sinking into the earth and growing flowers from its own eye sockets Algorithmic Shapeshifting presents a voice that is consistently fresh startling and sincere.- Ada Hoffmann author of The Outside
language: English
title: Algorithmic Shapeshifting: Poems
publisher: Aqueduct Press