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 Bach's 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.