Denis Johnson
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The Language of Sci-Fi
Envisioning a world transformed, science fiction transforms language itself: inventing words, making old words new, or expanding their possibilities. It's unsurprising, then, that poets should make use of scifi images—aliens, cyborgs, dinosaurs, and time machines—to speak, as good science fiction should, to subjects far beyond them.
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Whether in direct reference to the possibility of life beyond our own planet, or as a mirror to turn inwards, these poems reveal a fascination with aliens, abductions, and UFOs in highly personal and human ways.
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