# Human Resources: Poems - Hardcover

by **Ryann Stevenson** (Author)

**Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry  
Prize, Ryann Stevenson's _Human Resources_ is a sobering and  
perceptive portrait of technology's impact on connection and power.**

_Human Resources_ follows  
a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don't  
exist. In discerning verse, she workshops the  
facial characteristics of a floating head named "Nia," who her boss calls "his  
type"; she loses hours researching "June," an oddly sexualized artificially  
intelligent oven; and she spends a whole day "trying to break" a female  
self-improvement bot. The  
speaker of Stevenson's poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation, even as  
she endeavors to solve for these problems in her daily work. She attempts to  
harness control by eating clean, doing yoga, and searching for age-defying skin  
care, though she dreams "about the department / that women get reassigned to  
after they file / harassment complaints." With sharp, lyrical intelligence, she  
imagines alternative realities where women exist not for the whims of men but  
for their own--where they become literal skyscrapers, towering over a world that  
never appreciated them.Chilling and lucid, _Human  
Resources_ challenges the minds programming our present and future to consider  
what serves the collective good. Something perhaps more thoughtful and human,  
Stevenson writes: "I want to say _better_."

### Author Biography

**Ryann Stevenson** is the author of _Human Resources_. Her poems have appeared in the _Adroit Journal_, _American Letters & Commentary_, _Bennington Review_, _Columbia Poetry Review_, _Cortland Review_, _Denver Quarterly_, and _Linebreak_, among others. She lives in Oakland, California.

**Number of Pages:** 88

**Dimensions:** 0.63 x 8.58 x 5.67 IN

**Publication Date:** June 14, 2022

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