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Bright Machine - by Canisia Lubrin (Hardcover)

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  • From critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes her highly anticipated new collection, Bright Machine.
  • About the Author: CANISIA LUBRIN's work has been recognized by the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
  • 104 Pages
  • Poetry, Canadian

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From critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes her highly anticipated new collection, Bright Machine.

In Bright Machine, Canisia Lubrin gives poetic scrutiny to the legacy of human intelligence put in service of ruin. Using the fragmented music of Morse code, this poem tussles with the evolution of warcraft and the possibility for cohabitation. The result is a book of chimeric monologues using an invented form Lubrin calls the tesseract--a poem of sixteen lines, shaped in the logic of the mathematical cube--four stanzas: 4 lines + 5 lines + 6 lines + 1 line.

Addressing the myth of the developed world and its heirs and casualties, the poet names key weapons that guarantee(d) the rise and successes of ancient and modern empires. Lubrin reckons with the saga of civilization as the story of weapons history and its emissaries' expansive appetites for recasting conquest and mass killing. Bright Machine is, all at once, heartening, urgent poetry for a turbulent world.



About the Author



CANISIA LUBRIN's work has been recognized by the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .28 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 104
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Canadian
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Format: Hardcover
Author: Canisia Lubrin
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2026
TCIN: 1010282480
UPC: 9780771019951
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-1774
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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