The Machine Code of the Bleeding Moon

Latif Ba

ISBN 10: 1945233176 / ISBN 13: 9781945233173

Editore: Stillhouse Press, 2022

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, Latif Askia Ba brilliantly delineates the possibilities of the imagination as he builds a bulwark against humanity's creeping sense of hopelessness. By finding meaning in coding, mathematics, video games, music, dancing, and-most of all-poetry, Ba shows us that, regardless of the abilities we're born with, we are all capable of extraordinary things. A meditation on the body, the African-American experience, and what it means to live in the United States and the world as a disabled man, Ba's work is also, at its considerable heart, an ode to the poet's psyche and a testament to human capability.Latif Askia Ba is the Virgil of cyborg poetics.The Cyborg Jillian WeisePart seer, part seeker; part jester, part jazz riff, Ba is a gentleman fugitive from the laws of gravity and convention, 'jumping rivers' and 'scaring off the cattle.' The agility of the body that disability restricts is realized in extremis in his poetry's spectacular leaps and smooth movements across conceptual divides, as well as in its fluent musicality. It is impossible to imagine a debut collection more exhilarating, dynamic, and transformative than Ba's, or a book of any kind more deeply rooted and airborne all at once.Timothy DonnellyA dazzling meander through lexicons of bodies and technologies, The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon upends safe notions of what it means to be human. Departing from any predictable mode of autobiography or confession, this lyric self emerges in the midst of tech detritus, old CPUs and obsolete devices, at the same time operating within-speaking within- vibrant, syncretic fields of polyglot inheritances.B.K. FischerLike a short-wave radio picking up stations, in an airplane traveling over various continents and time zones, Latif Ba introduces an entirely new structure and poetics to the world. Constructed of hum and stutter, breaks and ruptures, refrains, repetitions, hush and static, these ecstatic poems draw the reader back and back to them, and to their rich and infinite unfolding.Cynthia Cruz.

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• Titolo: The Machine Code of the Bleeding Moon
• Editore: Stillhouse Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1945233176
• ISBN 13: 9781945233173
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 273 L x 210 A x 6 P (millimetri) 273 millimetri di larghezza per 210 millimetri di altezza per 6 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 261 grammi

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In The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, Latif Askia Ba brilliantly delineates the possibilities of the imagination as he builds a bulwark against humanity's creeping sense of hopelessness. By finding meaning in coding, mathematics, video games, music, dancing, and-most of all-poetry, Ba shows us that, regardless of the abilities we're born with, we are all capable of extraordinary things. A meditation on the body, the African-American experience, and what it means to live in the United States and the world as a disabled man, Ba's work is also, at its considerable heart, an ode to the poet's psyche and a testament to human capability.

Latif Askia Ba is the Virgil of cyborg poetics.

 

-The Cyborg Jillian Weise

Part seer, part seeker; part jester, part jazz riff, Ba is a gentleman fugitive from the laws of gravity and convention, "jumping rivers" and "scaring off the cattle." The agility of the body that disability restricts is realized in extremis in his poetry's spectacular leaps and smooth movements across conceptual divides, as well as in its fluent musicality. It is impossible to imagine a debut collection more exhilarating, dynamic, and transformative than Ba's, or a book of any kind more deeply rooted and airborne all at once.

 

-Timothy Donnelly

 

 

A dazzling meander through lexicons of bodies and technologies, The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon upends safe notions of what it means to be human. Departing from any predictable mode of autobiography or confession, this lyric self emerges in the midst of tech detritus, old CPUs and obsolete devices, at the same time operating within-speaking within- vibrant, syncretic fields of polyglot inheritances.

 

-B.K. Fischer

 

Like a short-wave radio picking up stations, in an airplane traveling over various continents and time zones, Latif Ba introduces an entirely new structure and poetics to the world. Constructed of hum and stutter, breaks and ruptures, refrains, repetitions, hush and static, these ecstatic poems draw the reader back and back to them, and to their rich and infinite unfolding.

 

-Cynthia Cruz

Informazioni sull?autore

Latif Askia Ba is a disabled poet of Italian and Senegalese descent. He was born with cerebral palsy and grew up in Brooklyn & Staten Island, New York. He attended Edinboro University, where he received his Bachelor's in Computer Science. He was recently accepted into Columbia University to pursue an MFA in creative writing.  At Edinboro, he discovered a passion for language and poetry, which led to his first collection of poems, Wet Monasteries. Since then, he has published award-winning poems such as "Platform" and "Me in Marble." He hopes to continue the rewarding work of appreciating and elevating Disability through the art of poetry language.