Unlikely Designs

By: Katie Willingham

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Paperback | 24 August 2017 | Edition Number 1

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104 Pages

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A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, Unlikely Designs draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charles Darwin, the love advice doled out by chatbots, and the eclectic inclusions on the Golden Record time capsule. It is here we discover the allure of the index, what pleasure there is in bending it to our own devices. At the same time, these poems also remind us that logic is often reckless, held together by nothing more than syntactical short circuits—well, I mean, sorry, yes—prone to cracking under closer scrutiny. Returning us again and again to these gaps, Katie Willingham reveals how any act of preservation is inevitably an act of curation, an outcry against the arbitrary, by attempting to make what is precious also what survives.

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"Unlikely Designs is shaped around Darwin's writings and they serve as levers for Willingham to jump into a web of topics. The poems often disarm the reader with strange humor and twist toward issues of growth and death . . . . Willingham doesn't use her base texts as a crutch, but instead interrogates Darwin, explores the impact of technology on our daily lives, and implores the reader to consider: what does it mean to survive?"
-- "Rain Taxi"
"Katie Willingham's superbly agile and ambitious poems are marvels of intellection, but first and foremost they are fun. Local pleasures--of pacing, idiom, juxtaposition, insight--are bountiful beyond all measure and beneath them lies a breadth of vision that is metaphysical in its sweep. I cannot say enough in praise of this brilliant work."
-- "Linda Gregerson"

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