The Opposite of Robots: Poems (PDF)
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Format: Paperback
Page count: 46
Publication date: January 1, 2012
Publisher: Robocup Press
ISBN: 9781320120357
ISBN10: 1320120350
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"With a deep sense of movement and a reverence for the seriousness of play (in the sense of holding a space for things to be experienced in), Tamryn Spruill's The Opposite of Robots asks whether it is our flesh that makes us human, or our damage. These poems, packed with immense curiosity and smart wordplay, are, as Tamryn writes in one poem, "mostly vulnerable": deeply traumatized, reaching (towards) something beautiful, and heart-felt (in the sense of the muscle that pulses). The Opposite of Robots is a gorgeous book that documents the never-finished work of splaying, cataloging, and re-assembling the parts both soft and hard that make us up."
-Kristen Stone, author of Domestication Handbook
In The Opposite of Robots, Tamryn Spruill takes on the world, the flesh, and the anatomy of longing. Daring in her refusal to simplify or sweeten "the bitter roots of my needing ways," the speaker in these poems sets her sights on nothing less than a transformation of the static material of depression and self-loathing into inklings of what Grace Paley wonderfully termed "the open destiny of life." As I finished the collection, I felt like the opposite of a voyeur, for Spruill's habit of scrutinizing "the guts of everything" registered as a potent, energizing challenge to explore my own "oft-unnerving innards."
-Jan Clausen, author of From a Glass House & If You Like Difficulty