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“In their wonderfully experimental debut Aurora Comes Online, Haley Bossé reveals the very thin line between our physical and virtual lives, these liminal spaces in which ‘coded eyes blink’ and suddenly, ‘we thing it:/We can’t stop writing it alive.’ Between the desire for true creation and dubious simulations that we long to be real, we are led by Aurora, who unravels the strangeness of being alive in the 21st century in language ‘lighter than light…consonants crescending/In a synchrony.’ There is so much joy to be found in Aurora’s journey, as we join as hopeful, curious readers who give into the wonder of Bossé’s imagination, all of us ‘Falling once, twice, three times/Until the mammoth gives way.’”
—Rosebud Ben-Oni, author of If This Is the Age We End Discovery
“In Aurora Comes Online, Haley Bossé offers poems that press with unerring precision at edges—of zones, species and received forms. Breathing the altered and altering air of these poems, I am at once exhilarated by their quicksilver possibilities of transformation and grounded by their queer necessity.”
—Cassandra Cleghorn, author of Four Weathercocks
“I am obsessed with the rigorous yet porous forms that shape this incredible debut and offer the reader such concision and flexibility. Haley Claire Bossé is our Virgil through the malware of our gender programming. I am at once haunted yet happy to be led, to look around inside."
—grace (ge) gilbert, author of Holly