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Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand themselves as individuals, they must investigate the boundaries separating each from the other.
Boy finds a spot beneath a tree & stretches out
taking up half of the forest floor. Historian & I
have to keep stepping over Boy’s limbs & sometimes
we step into each other, a pile of Boy & Historian & me.
Over the course of the collection, the three struggle to tether and untether. They continuously disturb and upend, externally and internally. They are terrified to be with and without each other. The resulting horror—blood, broken bodies, decomposition—is a landscape, both natural and unnatural, of their glorious failure.

Machines Like Us

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Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian),... Read more

    Publisher: Dzanc Books
    Publication Date: 08/03/2016
    ISBN13: 9781938103445, 978-1938103445
    ISBN10: 1938103440

    Number of Pages: 64

    Fiction , Poetry

    Description

    Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand themselves as individuals, they must investigate the boundaries separating each from the other.
    Boy finds a spot beneath a tree & stretches out
    taking up half of the forest floor. Historian & I
    have to keep stepping over Boy’s limbs & sometimes
    we step into each other, a pile of Boy & Historian & me.
    Over the course of the collection, the three struggle to tether and untether. They continuously disturb and upend, externally and internally. They are terrified to be with and without each other. The resulting horror—blood, broken bodies, decomposition—is a landscape, both natural and unnatural, of their glorious failure.

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