Microclimates

by Taylor Brady

Poetry. Laura Moriarty writes of MICROCLIMATES, "[it is] not only a great first book, it is one of the most compelling, most symptomatic books of the new century." Bay Area writer, Taylor Brady is cutting-edge: "MICROCLIMATES is a genre-bending tour de force, a textual body in which Taylor Brady pushes all the pressure points of poetry, family saga, politics, scholarly apparatus, documentary, commonplace book, musicology. And with its recasting of epistolary tropes, it's sort of a DANGEROUS LIAISONS for the thinking man or woman. Expunged from a landscape of dream, MICROCLIMATES takes 'you to/ another earth/ entirely'"-Dodie Bellamy.

164 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stress-fractured bildungsroman in which the supposed continuity of a life story is split open by the operations of capital, every recollection, sensory impression, and attempt at narration entangled with the abstractions of speculation and debt, the sentences themselves bearing the weight of crisis as language struggles to keep pace with the economic and environmental forces that drive it, producing a multimodal text where the subject never coheres but drifts through coordinates of value, risk, and desire, each local moment exposing its complicity with a global machinery that has already converted experience into exchange and history into allegory. Criminally unsung.

[Bryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an extremely demanding read, but I promise you it's worth it, and I found the second time through to be even more enjoyable and rewarding.