· If John Ashbery’s Some Trees marked a new beginning for modern American poetry, Aditi Machado’s Some Beheadings renovates the poetics of indeterminacy for our transnational continuous present. Tracing migratory routes through the thickets and deserts of signification—from the Western Ghats to Marienbad and beyond—Machado arrives at something like a spiritual allegory for the Offer Count: 2. · Some Beheadings. I is an orient in the sense that all things wend toward me. Aditi Machado’s debut collection, Some Beheadings, is a delicate meditation on the origin of thought. Somewhere between Wittgenstein and Rilke, with splatterings of Gertrude Stein, each page is a flower opening to reflect bltadwin.ru: Katy Haas. · So writes Aditi Machado in “Prospekt,” the first of twelve poetic sequences that make up her astounding debut collection, Some Beheadings. Indeed, despite the book’s violent title, these are poems that feature Eros far more often than they do Thanatos. Gardens and their particulars, mountain passes, deserts, and thickets—and the body—the tongue most of all—run through these mostly Author: Julie Carr.
Aditi Machado is an Indian poet whose books include Some Beheadings (The Believer Poetry Award, ) and a translation of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia. Her two most recent chapbooks are Prologue | Emporium and This Touch. Currently, she works as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Washington University in Saint Louis. Visit Website. This is the voice of Aditi Machado's debut book, Some Beheadings —heavy, restless, yes, but also absorbed, absorbing, excited, exciting. From "Route: Western Ghats": The top of this hill is called a viewpoint but is not figurative. We've made a philology of it which is immaculate which is as we are now, figural. Photo credit: Siddarth Machado. Aditi Machado is the author of Some Beheadings (Nightboat) and the translator of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (Action). Her poetry and criticism also appear in chapbook form as well as in journals like Lana Turner, VOLT, Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, and bltadwin.ru second poetry collection Emporium (forthcoming) recently received the James Laughlin.
They are the lashes of a forest of thought.” (Mary Jo Bang) “If John Ashbery’s Some Trees marked a new beginning for modern American poetry, Aditi Machado’s Some Beheadings renovates the poetics of indeterminacy for our transnational continuous present. Tracing migratory routes through the thickets and deserts of signification—from the Western Ghats to Marienbad and beyond—Machado arrives at something like a spiritual allegory for the disenchanted. Some Beheadings asks three questions: How does thinking happen?- -What does thinking feel like?- -How do I think about the future?- The second question takes primacy over the others, r Here the -beheaded- poet displaces her mind into the landscape, exploring territories as disparate as India's Western Ghats and the cinematic Mojave Desert, as absurd as insomnia and dream. Aditi Machado. Emporium is a key contribution to an emerging phenomenon in contemporary poetics—the development of what I am calling a silk poetics a poetics that is, like silk, fungible and multiple. —Toby Altman, “Silk Poetics,” The Georgia Review. As an artist you have to be very lucky or very gifted to create anything so.
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