{"product_id":"9781837316694-bright-machine","title":"Bright Machine","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBright Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, international award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin re-frames the history of civilisation as one of arms race, where human ingenuity is put in service of destruction and intelligence is weaponised against life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdopting the fragmented rhythms of Morse Code to score this book-length poem, and forging a new poetic form called ‘the tesseract’, Lubrin uses the music and geometry of industrial modernity to reckon with the myths of the developed world, its instruments of ruin, its heirs and casualties. In doing so, she echoes the famous William Carlos Williams adage, ‘a poem is a small (or large) machine made of words’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten during the years where major armed conflicts ignited in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, Venezuela and Iran, \u003ci\u003eBright Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis a lightning rod for all that is elided from the triumphant narrative of empires and asks if we can imagine another way of co-habitation. Epic and dazzling in scale, tender and urgent in voice, \u003ci\u003eBright Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis the collection for our turbulent times, a song pulled from the noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58644454867318,"sku":"9781837316694","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_43408173.jpg?v=1789575844","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781837316694-bright-machine","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}