Human resources cover

Human resources

by Rachel Zolf

"Poetry and 'plain language' collide in Human Resources, revealing the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. As letters turn to digits, pilfered rhetorics track an economy in which poets, marketers, philosophers and coders contest meaning at the limits of language." "Navigating the crumbling boundaries between page, screen, reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste - and the creative potential of salvage"--Back cover.

Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?