An Internet of Containment by Anne-Adele Wight

Management has taken up the notion of turning us inside out.” So claims Anne-Adele Wight’s latest collection, An Internet of Containment, which offers the reader a revolving invitation—to imagine, to envision, to dream, to question… a world where “humans are turning to metal without knowing it.” These poems break containment into speculation about a future where timeliness and timelessness fly hand in hand into the infinite. This is a chronicle of the exodus of souls. This is the scintillating moment when we all become homeless. “from here the aurora has changed color.”

––Travis Cebula, author of The Sublimation of Frederick Eckert

“What does it mean to contain?” So begins An Internet of Containment, Anne-Adele Wight’s darkly beautiful rumination on the many ways human beings resist, bust open, and inevitably continue to search for their metaphorical and literal containers. Wight’s unflinching depiction of a post-Earth population touches the raw edges of our darkest fears of detachment—”They talk about feeling poured out of pitchers and set loose in space”—and our heartbreaking, primal will to triumph and survive: “I slice my knuckles with a sword to show the sun I’m here.” By the end of this captivating and inventive book, we’ve learned that to contain is human, as is to be contained, or as Wight reminds us, “a container is born not made.”

—Nicole Steinberg, author of Glass Actress

Anne-Adele Wight’s An Internet of Containment brings a tender, galactic imagination to our crisis here on earth in these post-human yet irreducibly mammalian poems. That there might be “something not quite finished” at the once-molten center of our beloved home, that we might yet “approximate a tidal roar,” that we might invoke the biological even in the cold space of skeletal remnants: these poems map the lines by which we might echolocate another future long after this one collapses underneath us.

––Julia Bloch, author of Valley Fever

Anne-Adele Wight is the author of Sidestep Catapult, Opera House Arterial, and The Age of Greenhouses, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has been published widely in print and online. She lives and writes in Philadelphia and has read extensively there and in other cities.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 90 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-329-4

$16

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