Terror Matrix

by Zoe Tuck

Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Politics. Occult. With spells by Z. Ozma.

An unwieldy livestream of body-memory at the intersection of politics and bare life, torture and S&M, somatic subversion and everyday digital witchcraft

Genres: Poetry, LGBT

58 pages, ebook

First published May 9, 2014

About the author

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Western Massachusetts. Her work explores queer and trans life, and the spirituality of reading. She is the author of Bedroom Vowel (BUNNY Presse, 2023) and Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014), as well as the chapbooks The Book of Bella (Doublecross Press), bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's Peach Woman, and Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna* Collaborative). A member of Belladonna* Collaborative, she also co-edits Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown. She teaches creative writing and literature classes through Threshold Academy and elsewhere.

Reviews

[alfo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The writing was a conscious exertion throughout.It was sporadic and wrung like a memory.

[Deyana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely, meditative, subversive, honest, vulnerable, strong. The words weave and toss and turn, and as soon as you get comfortable: rupture. I haven't read anything like this before, poetry and prose side by side intertwined one in another; or rather not--rather overlapped, covering one another, seemingly suffocating, but really, it's a breath of fresh air:

"i'll meet you when the moon grows tall" (22).

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has me always thinking about "lessons in unworlding." it makes things better

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Small, smart.