Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak

Alexandria Peary. Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak. Spuyten Duyvil, 2022 (available November 2021). 

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Synopsis: New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alexandria Peary offers a high-spirited exploration of the vexations of life in 2020-2021, from social media giants to pandemic inequity to a concrete poem about a landfill. Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak is a book distinctly for the times: federal judges hide behind houseplants, a sonnet explodes from sexism, statues of penthouse dictators are toppled, a mountain threatens to drop on top of a hiker as an act of homophobia, emoji are at war in a mural outside a cafeteria, and 100,000 early Christian martyrs try to figure out the on-switch to a lost-and-found I-pad in a crypt—as the poems in this book take on social media. 

This post is part of NH Loves Poetry, a 2022 project of the Center for the Book at the NHSL.