Michaels Sean - Do You Remember Being Born? A Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels writes a moving innovative novel about an ageing poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI. Do You Remember Being Born? is sensitively narrated by the ageing world - renowned poet Marian Ffarmer. Marian's pristine life of the mind for which she's sacrificed nearly all personal relationships from romance to friendship to showing up for her son is interrupted one day by a cryptic invitation from a tech giant. " Come to California" the invitation beckons and write with a machine. The Company's lucrative offer for Marian to compose a 'historic partnership of a poem with their highly intelligent poetry bot Charlotte much as it chafes at everything she believes about art - making as an individual pursuit is a second chance she cannot resist. And so to California she goes a sceptic. But as unexpectedly welcome to Marian as suddenly being a financially reliable parent is her generative growing fascination with Charlotte.
Title: Do You Remember Being Born? A Novel
Author(s): Michaels Sean
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Barcode: 9781662602320
Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction