The Miracle Machine: poems - Matthew Pennock - Livros - Gival Press - 9781940724294 - 1 de setembro de 2020
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The Miracle Machine: poems

Matthew Pennock

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The Miracle Machine: poems

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award



"A 19th-century automaton and other museum exhibits narrate this collection of poems . . . . Uncanny, heart-wrenching, and beautifully crafted

poems by an original voice." -Kirkus Reviews, August 5, 2020, starred review



"Vast in scope, passionately imagined, and constructed with as much ingenuity as the famed contraption at its narrative's heart, Matthew

Pennock's second book hints at serious ontological questions as it invents its hero's journey from automaton to autonomy. Like all contrivances that simulate human life, Pennock's synthetic boy compels us to interrogate our own materiality, and to ask, if we are all just portions of the twisting / stew of particles and light assembled by mechanical chance, then what puts the lonely in us? Packed with insight and wit and told by a congress of oddities-the narration travels back and forth in time and juggles various perspectives, including that of a trained seal, a fortune teller machine, and both halves of P. T. Barnum's bogus mermaid-The Miracle Machine is an irresistible, at times provocative, and often powerfully affecting book."

-Timothy Donnelly, author of The Problem of the Many


94 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 1 de setembro de 2020
ISBN13 9781940724294
Editoras Gival Press
Páginas 94
Dimensões 202 × 133 × 11 mm   ·   113 g
Idioma English