Dream Machine

Dream Machine

Poetry. DREAM MACHINE, Sade Murphy's debut collection of prose poems, is a catalog of violence and somnambulant obsessions. This numerological tour de force creates a dreamscape that reflects various violence-saturated landscapes, including physical, sexual, psychological, racial, and gendered. Among these, the speaker of the poems both enacts violence and receives it, and violence becomes a neutral tool, taking on the qualities of the body that wields it. Both excessive and inclusive, the collection probes the speaker's desire to hold order and chaos, good and evilâ€”any false dichotomyâ€”simultaneously in tension and in harmony. To disturb these oppositions, Murphy invents Him, an uncanny, destructive, confiningâ€”yet somehow alluringâ€”presence to interrogate the male gaze and normative masculinity. In conjunction with the nightmare man and mother, Him completes a trifecta of forces, both real and symbolic, that the dreamer must navigate and extricate herself from to attain the freedom she seeks.
Country USA
Brand co-im-press
Manufacturer co-im-press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780988819931
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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