The Metoposcopy of Guðr & Khôra Miraibot, Volume VIII The Posthuman Series by Daniel Y. Harris

In Praise of Daniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series

(The Metoposcopy of Guðr & Khôra Miraibot, Volume VIII, The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu, Volume VI, The Resurrection of Maximillian Pissante, Volume V, The Misprision of Agon Hack, Volume IV, The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic, Volume III, The Tryst of Thetica Zorg, Volume II, The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, Volume I)

Daniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series is an intoxicating brew of quasis: scientific, esoteric, bibliographic, geologic, lettristic. Who knows what poetry lurks in the heart of codes? It’s as if we are privy to the history of knowledge from its other side, before as much as after. These poems are an explosion in a pataquerics factory.

—Charles Bernstein

Daniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series is uncanny and disturbing. It’s impossible for the reader to escape its mix of Silicon Valley and Lurianic interspace.

—Harold Bloom

Daniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force!

—Marjorie Perloff

Assuming that the prefix “post” conventionally denotes that which comes after or subsequent to a previous event in time, what does it mean for a human to speak of the posthuman? Rather than challenging the traditional understanding of humanity as the sole or central agency in the world, in The Posthuman Series, Daniel Y. Harris has imparted to readers a new vision that seeks to reclaim the aesthetic act of making poetry combined with the genomic and evolutionary dynamics of the history of life. Drawing from a plethora of sources, the text woven by Harris defies categorization and in so doing brings consciousness to the edge of space where both ends of the wheel of time are open such that there is no after that is not before it was after not being before. The apocalyptic sensibility undergirding the posthuman poiēsis challenges the viability of algorithmic thinking, positing in its place the invariability of an endless variability. The narrative to be elicited from Harris’s philosophical meditations tells the story of a world determined by an ensemble of enveloping and extensive networks, a sense of oneness that is constituted by the manifold, a constellation of ideas that inculcates generic fluctuation  rather than systematic totalization. The Posthuman Series offers a prodigious specification of plurivocality in the attempt to map the disjointed univocity of the infinite.

—Elliot R. Wolfson



Daniel Y. Harris’ internationally acclaimed The Posthuman Series includes The Metoposcopy of Guðr & Khôra, Volume VIII (BlazeVOX, 2025), The Apostasy of Proxy Godbot, Volume VII (BlazeVOX, 2024), The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2023), The Resurrection of Maximillian Pissante, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2022), The Misprision of Agon Hack, Volume IV (BlazeVOX, 2021), The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic, Volume III (BlazeVOX, 2019), The Tryst of Thetica Zorg, Volume II (BlazeVOX, 2018) and The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, Volume I (BlazeVOX, 2016). The Posthuman Series is an evolving, experimental poetry series.

His The Posthuman Series has received praise from Charles Bernstein, Harold Bloom, Andrei Codrescu, Kenneth Goldsmith, Daniel C. Matt, Marjorie Perloff and Elliot R. Wolfson. “The Xenopoetics of Daniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series,” a lecture by Andrew C. Wenaus of The University of Western Ontario was presented at The Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA), with the theme “AAAA! - AI, Algorithms, Automata and Art,” in a panel discussion titled “Artificial Progeny, Determinism and the Limits of Posthumanism.”

His collections include The Underworld of Lesser Degrees (NYQ Books, 2015), Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Červená Barva Press, 2013) and Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009). The Underworld of Lesser Degrees has received praise from Daniel Morris. Hyperlinks of Anxiety has received praise from Sander L. Gillman. Unio Mystica has received praise from Daniel Matt.

His collaboratives include The Return of Doom-Headed Three (with Rupert M. Loydell, X-Peri Series, Swan World, 2018), The Co-ordinates of Doubt and Esophagus Writ (with Rupert M. Loydell, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017, 2014), heshe egregore (with Irene Koronas, Éditions du Cygne, 2016), The New Arcana (with John Amen, NYQ Books, 2012) and Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad (with Adam Shechter, Červená Barva Press, 2010). Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad has received praise from Andrei Codrescu and William Heyan and was awarded a “Forward Five: 2010 in Poetry” for being selected as one of the five most important Jewish poetry books of 2010 by the Forward.

Anthologies of his experimental poetry include “‘Tech Support Says Dead Don Walking’: Tradition, the Internet, and Individual Talent in the Poetry of Daniel Y. Harris,” Chapter 9 in Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop, Daniel Morris. Anthem Press, 2024.

Excerpts from his The Posthuman Series as well as excerpts from his separate collections and collaboratives have been published in Argotist Online Poetry, Alligatorzine, Big Bridge, Blackbox Manifold, BlazeVOX, Buzdokuz, The Café Irreal,DeepSNAKES Techno Poetry Mixtape Project, Denver Quarterly, Dichtung Yammer, Die Leere Mitte, E·ratio, Esthesis, European Judaism, Exquisite Corpse, Gammm, Hyper-Annotation, J. The Jewish News, Kerem, Creative Expressions in Judaism, M58, Mad Hatter’s Review, Mad Swirl, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Milk Magazine, The New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Offcourse Literary Journal, Otoliths, [Pank], Paterson Literary Review, The Pedestal Magazine, perspektive, petrichor, Poetry Magazine.com, Poetry Salzburg Review, In Posse Review, PRESS Anthology, Activism and the Avant-Garde, Ragazine, Revenant, slowforward, Stride, Sulfur Surrealist Jungle, Synchronized Chaos, Tarpaulin Sky, Tears in the Fence, Utsanga, Version (9) Magazine, Word For/Word, Xenopoem, Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Artsand Zeek, A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

His sculptures and assemblages have been exhibited at The Center for Visual Arts, Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts, The Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College, The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, Prairie Street Gallery, The Somar Gallery and The Work Place Gallery.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Var(2x). His website is danielyharris.com.




Book Information:

· Paperback: 272 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-517-5