Breakpoint

An award-winning collection of poetry that exquisitely blends technology and the Asian-American experience in what poet Colleen J. McElroy calls "an evocative mixture of sensual experiences and mathematically infused linguistic patterns." Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a poet fiction writer and video game producer. Her first book Breakpoint is a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist and winner of Tebot Bachs Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Its signature poem "Slouching like a velvet rope" won the 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize selected by Jericho Brown. Entrepreneur and Author Elisa Camahort Page calls BREAKPOINT "a unique techno-literary work" and continues "Like the very best code BREAKPOINT is also both clean and beautiful with no word or command wasted." Poetry. Asian & American Studies. Technology.