Desiring Machines Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Lasky’s poems point us to

Lasky’s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted – by past selves

how gender deviance imagines post-sovereign presents and futures

‘the moon / a red spot on a burnt-out sky’

Nor did he think that conventional approaches to storytelling or lyrical composition could capture the complexities of human behavior or personal and national identity

Desiring Machines Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Lasky’s poems point us toAndrea 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