Desiring Machines Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and transcendence flow together into

and transcendence flow together into the vexed semi-coherence we have come to call culture

Arjen Fortuin

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror was awarded the Pulitzer Prize

Campos was celebrated—and slandered—for his vociferous poetry imbued with a Whitman-inspired free verse

Desiring Machines Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and transcendence flow together intoAndrea Brady Midway through lifes journey, on the margins of a burning forest, we find ourselves in a clearing full of pulsing machines Poems, like anxiety, attempt to contain what spills over, and to overflow what fits too tightly. In Desiring Machines, Andrea Bradys vital, candid eighth collection of poetry, the language of crisis gapes and sings. These poems find breathing spaces within the minutes dilated by fear, the slow ticking of grief, rage