Katy Ilonka Gero's "The Anxiety of Conception" Book Launch

Katy Gero’s The Anxiety of Conception is the second in the Nothing to Say series of “dynamic books” where each copy is uniquely generated and printed. Written in the months leading up to and following the birth of the author's child, The Anxiety of Conception comes as a confession of humanity and heartfelt love. Living out the continual mixing and recombining of memories, the book changes with time; every copy represents a uniquely generated and printed tour through Gero's memories, and every copy made contributes to the further mixing of time to come. In this debut like no other, Gero invites us to join her in astonishment at the bizarre and profound phenomena of life and memory. Coming May 31, and open for preorders now!

About the author:

Katy Ilonka Gero grew up in Sydney, Australia and spent the second half of her life in cities across the Northeast United States. Her poems, essays, and digital literary experiments have been published in Stirring Lit, The HTML Review, taper, and Wired, among others. She has done writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and CultureHub. Along with Kyle Booten, she is the co-founder of Ensemble Park, a journal dedicated to publishing literary experiments in human-computer collaboration. She holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is currently faculty at the University of Sydney in the School of Computer Science.

About the press:

Nothing to Say is a small press based in Brooklyn and Queens. We publish poetry that we love and think you’ll love too. With titles forthcoming this spring and summer, we’ll be specializing in computational poetry books where each copy is a uniquely generated and printed edition. As believers in a world without artificial scarcity, everything we publish is licensed under copyleft licenses like the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. All our code, including the code behind our computational books, is similarly available under open source licenses. Website: https://nothing-to-say.org/

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