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Material Witness

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Brief Description
A series of meditative long poems that ritualise perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world. In Material Witness, encouraging us to eschew nostalgia for deep presence, Machado's poems remind us that "experience is phenomenal in its segues." Read More
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A series of meditative long poems that ritualise perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.

In Material Witness, encouraging us to eschew nostalgia for deep presence, Machado's poems remind us that "experience is phenomenal in its segues."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643622446

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 December 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

About the Author

Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (2016), and several chapbooks the most recent of which are a long poem called now (2020) and an essay titled The End (2020). Machado's work appears in journals like BOMB, Lana Turner, Volt, The Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2. A former Poetry Editor for Asymptote, she works as an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

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