[PREORDER] (DIGITAL BINGE BUNDLE) STREAMING SERVICE: seasons one, two, & three

"STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv" is an ode to the historic, moving mode of episodic and serial storytelling. Without regard for genre, location, or air date, Sofía Aguilar borrows spoken tv dialogue penned by other writers and makes each word the sternum of her poems through an unusually structured but culturally transformative poetic form. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, character and person, identity and heartache, Aguilar honors the stories that shaped her, that have been told before—all while bringing forth her own.

"STREAMING SERVICE: season two" is the long-awaited sequel to Sofía Aguilar’s debut poetry chapbook, STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv (2021). With a growing masterful hand, Aguilar returns to a familiar poetic form to weave together dialogue from more tv shows past and present (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Bridgerton, I Love Lucy) with her own personal experiences of break-ups, new love, kinship, family, and navigating multi-faceted identity while still processing the trauma of history. Roping in fellow contemporary poets for collaboratively-written golden shovels (“crossover episodes”) and lyrics from a few of her favorite artists to create song-inspired golden shovels (“season soundtrack”), she creates an ever-expansive, ambitious, and most of all, tender love letter to television itself—all while writing her own story.

"STREAMING SERVICE: the series finale" is the third and final installment of Sofía Aguilar’s STREAMING SERVICE trilogy. Four years after the publication of season two, Aguilar returns to the golden shovel poetry form with new urgency and fire, plucking lines of dialogue from TV shows old, contemporary, and brand-new (Mad Men, The White Lotus, Only Murders in the Building) to explore her meditations on home, family, myth-making, truth-telling, grief, mental illness, and our relationship to land and body.

With each new poem, she bends and twists the golden shovel into a shape of her own making, turning constraints into new freedoms. Featuring collaboratively-written golden shovels (“crossover episodes”), golden shovels inspired by song lyrics (“season soundtrack”), and poems using dialogue exclusively from other series finales (“the end”), she says good-bye to a form that has transformed her work for the better and finishes out the series on a striking note that lasts long after the last page—all while knowing that good things never truly come to a close.

Includes:
- 27-page digital PDF download of STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv
- 60-page digital PDF download of STREAMING SERVICE: season two
- 97-page digital PDF download of STREAMING SERVICE: the series finale
- Link to two chapbook-themed Spotify playlists with purchase