Janice Lobo Sapigao

Introduction by M. NourbeSe Philip

ISBN: 978-0-9981792-1-6

LCCN: 2016957188

Publication Year: 2016

Cover artwork: Jessica Sabogal

Book design: Edwin Lozada

Pages: 76

Size: 6" x 9"

Binding: Softbound

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~Janice Sapigao, in this powerful and innovative debut, captures her mother’s traumatic experience as an assembly line worker in Silicon Valley, as well as the larger social, economic, and environmental impacts of the high tech industry. The poems switch between English, Ilokano, and binary code, and between documentary, visual, ethnographic, and lyric modes. In our time of toxic exposure, labor exploitation, and gentrification, Sapigao shows us how poetry can be a site to protest injustice, affirm dignity, and maintain hope. —Craig Santos Perez

~Google the words “Silicon Valley,” click on “Images,” and you’ll find maps documenting the swarms of companies encroaching upon the Bay Area alongside pictures of youthful, bearded hipster entrepreneurs riding shiny new cruiser bikes along idyllic, palm tree-lined walkways to their million-dollar offices. What you won’t find are photos of those who made Silicon Valley what it is today:  the assembly line workers putting in 12-hour day after 12-hour day, making “microchips for millions” — mostly immigrant, mostly women, all exploited. microchips for millions is a bitterly sweet love letter from Janice Sapigao to her mother, and through her mother’s eyes and words, she brings these unknown stories to light, somber reminders that like many other American institutions today, Silicon Valley is built upon the backs of those who give everything they have and are given little to nothing in return. —Liza Marie S. Erpelo

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