The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts - Jonathan Travelstead

The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts

By: Jonathan Travelstead, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Foreword by)

Hardcover | 1 February 2025

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The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts by Jonathan Travelstead is a spellbinding poetry collection that navigates the fragile, electrifying intersection of humanity and technology. With a foreword by Sequoia Nagamatsu that illuminates Travelstead's life and artistic vision, the collection delves into the uncharted territories of the human spirit as it grapples with the infinite possibilities-and terrifying implications-of scientific progress and cosmic mysteries.

Divided into four compelling sections, the poems weave together existential questions, the looming shadow of technological singularity, and the relentless search for meaning in a universe as wondrous as it is indifferent. From intimate reflections to soaring explorations of science fiction and popular culture, Travelstead's work pulses with vivid imagery and bold imagination, inviting readers to confront the unknown with both awe and unease.

The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts is more than a collection of poems-it's an odyssey through the heart of human existence at the edge of the digital frontier. Prepare to be challenged, inspired, and utterly transformed by this extraordinary exploration of what it means to be human in an ever-expanding cosmos.

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Taken as a whole, The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts is a mediation through time and space from a poetic mind caught within the foam between universes. This is a siren call from deep space (but also the space right in front of us) that is asking us to think about who we are, what we value, and how we might save ourselves. Both expansive and deeply personal, Travelstead has given us a timely and timeless collection of poems that tells the story of us.

Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK

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