Desiring Machines Except for This Unseen Thread

Desiring Machines Except for This Unseen ThreadAndrea Brady Midway through lifes journey, on the margins of a burning forest, we find ourselves in a clearing full of pulsing machines Poems, like anxiety, attempt to contain what spills over, and to overflow what fits too tightly. In Desiring Machines, Andrea Bradys vital, candid eighth collection of poetry, the language of crisis gapes and sings. These poems find breathing spaces within the minutes dilated by fear, the slow ticking of grief, rage

aesthetics and creativity

howl of anger

interrogating

as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories

is a world citizen

the relation between language and sex

this book presents the art of translation as a "chance to live in the multiplicity of languages and the spaces of relation that it opens up

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

Reading the book is a game for the eyes

Then the farthermost outside intervenes—the illustrated world becomes distorted

In this book of poems

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