We Computers: A Ghazal Novel

by Hamid Ismailov

A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by "a writer of immense poetic power" (The Guardian)

In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon-Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he learns from his Uzbek translation partner, Abdulhamid Ismoil, Jon-Perse builds a computer program capable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030027274X
• ISBN13: 9780300272741
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages