Winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award.
“In Breakpoint, Betsy Aoki sharpens the nerves of her poems, applying, brilliantly, the terse grammar of computer code to family immigration stories, from detention camp incarceration to the speaker’s “coder-girl” design for a game in which female characters use combat as an unapologetic mode of self-making— all cast against the glaringly white backdrop of Silicon Valley.
Aoki’s poems are restless, allusive, spikey, mournful, mystical, yearning, lovely, and always always open to the attention and sway of language over time.
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Dorothy Barresi
