Stephanie Strickland’s most recent books of poetry are How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (2019) and Ringing the Changes (2020), a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of tower bell-ringing. Other books include Dragon Logic, True North, and The Red Virgin: […]
for my father —the gills still swimming with you, breathing for you, tumbling backward toward some […]
Don’t even go there. Take back everything I took, your taste, your shivering —red salt, from your lip. Take the downcurving smile you smiled to yourself about me, it was like a pool I entered you were all I could see you […]
Hardy’s Dumbledore, a bumblebee— It speaks in tongues but is bespoke in code. Word splash hits quantificated body! Siri hears Nietzsche’s name as “nature”! Finally, a challenger for language. Hear Robots read. Algorithms unpack. Psider web, cliteracy, yonderdust Databased. Incarnated or extinguished? Icarus—approaching—swan dives the sun. Exit here. […]