{"product_id":"slipstream-paperback-3","title":"Slipstream - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Cao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlipstream \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003edeal with the slippery concept of home, with robots and the internet and other human inventions, and with what we can learn from the natural world around us. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Berkshire Prize, \u003ci\u003eSlipstream\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing, intimate, and formally adventurous debut that moves with equal grace through personal memory, inherited history, myth, and the ambient technologies of contemporary life. Diana Cao's poems braid ancient Chinese legend, family migration, illness, love, and grief with moon landers, algorithms, privacy policies, and online ritual, creating a lyric field where the ancestral and the digital speak fluently to one another. The book is formally restless and assured. Sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, fables, and linked sequences feel conversational rather than ornate, their intelligence worn lightly, their music precise and unforced. Throughout, Cao writes with a clarity that never flattens complexity: humor and vulnerability coexist with philosophical rigor. Tenderness is sharpened, not softened, by attention to politics, history, and care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is a voice attuned to relational life in all its registers--daughterhood, friendship, desire, citizenship, species--asking how to live, love, and remain lucid inside systems that both sustain and estrange us. \u003ci\u003eSlipstream\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of uncommon range and emotional intelligence, one that feels fully of this moment while remaining in deep, living conversation with the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Cao\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eRelational\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Just Buffalo Literary Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398047314141,"sku":"9781961209619","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/XvuPwj2svW9781961209619.webp?v=1787219191","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/slipstream-paperback-3","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}