Emporium
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1643620290
ISBN-13
9781643620299
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Imprint
Nightboat Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 2020
Print length
112 Pages
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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Aditi Machado’s lush poetic investigation of transnational and trans-lingual modes which received the 2019 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a merchant woman as she travels a twenty-first century “silk route.” As on the original silk route, this merchant is engaged in economic transactions but also cultural exchanges, un-monetizeable reciprocities, the sensory excesses of the marketplace: coins moving from hand to hand, the smell of food and sweat infusing the air, the “noise” of translation and multilingualism. Is this tradeswoman in control of her “destiny”/business or is she a commodity of impenetrable global forces? Her investigative, digressive travel seems a way to interrogate history and money and her own entanglement in such irresistible threads.
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