The Choreic Period

Praise for The Machine Code of the Bleeding Moon  “Latif Askia Ba is the Virgil of cyborg poetics.”—The Cyborg Jillian Weise, author of Cyborg Detective: Poems “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, author of The Problem of the Many “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, author of Ceive “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, author of Hotel Oblivion