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Aditi Machado is a poet and translator. Her debut collection Some Beheadings received the Believer Poetry Award and her second book Emporium, won the James Laughlin Award. Her writing appears in journals like Lana Turner, The Rumpus, Western Humanities Review, The Chicago Review, and Jacket2 as well as in chapbook form. She works as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Washington University in Saint Louis.
"Winner of the James Laughlin Award, the expansive collection from
Machado (Some Beheadings) is both luxurious and cerebral, funneling
her debut’s torqued syntax into a fever dream of 'the silk route
upon which I came.' … This delightful book is full of depth and
discovery."—Starred Review in Publishers Weekly "In this
gorgeously rendered work from Machado (Some Beheadings), the
speaker travels a reimagined contemporary silk route, suffused with
a sense of unbelonging ('I came low like low things…barter[ing] my
socialisms for some mastic or gâteau'), and arrives at the rich
temptations of a vast emporium…VERDICT: A Laughlin Award winner;
stunning work for sophisticated readers."—Starred Review
in Library Journal "“Wordplay” isn’t quite the term for what’s
going on here; it’s more like linguistic athleticism. If you always
choose Scrabble over Risk, crosswords over sudoku, you’ll get so
much pleasure from the rhymes and slant rhymes (“The body is
pronounced bawdy”; “It’s like innocence way off / in the
distance”), double and triple meanings, conjugations and
declensions, repetitions that evoke a sense of déjà vu."—Elisa
Gabbert, The New York Times"Aditi Machado’s first book is as
breathtaking as it is refreshing. The poet sustains a gentle,
rigorous honesty that feels entirely holy."—Believer Poetry
Award
"A thickly-textured, richly-sensed collection, Emporium is porous
and deft, as aware of the limits of the self and language as it is
the potential to be alive and awake to the physical world and the
powers pulsating through it."—EcoTheo Review
"Machado weaves together the financial, social and political in
this poetic traipse through the market. She encourages us to
meditate on our own livelihood and purchasing patterns, to think
about what truly benefits us in our survival. These poems ask deep
questions rooted in worth—what is comfort worth, what is money
worth? What is monetizable, and what should or should not be? Where
are our coins, and our happiness, going when we buy something?
Whatever answers we find have both individual and global
importance."—Vagabond City
"Machado’s sensuous intelligence is richly complex and always
grounded in the everyday of things, in seeing and in touch. And
with her cadenced fugal voice, she speaks to the troubles of our
time… Machado works a magic of sound and sense, reveling in things
and revealing all the ideas they incorporate."—Kenyon
Review"Emporium is a key contribution to an emerging phenomenon in
contemporary poetics—the development of what I am calling a silk
poetics. If this phenomenon is small in scale, it nonetheless
encompasses some of the most vibrant developments in recent
poetry—and its very smallness suggests a shift in the dynamics of
avant-garde work, indeed, of poetic innovation."—The Georgia
Review"Again, Machado leaves me thinking about the possibilities of
language and a translator’s genius brain, the folds of the 'royal
mantle.' What I’m trying to say is that Aditi Machado is a genius!
I consistently feel challenged by her work. Winner of the 2019
James Laughlin Award, Machado’s Emporium is a sustaining
book of rhythmic, unwavering poems, sharp-eyed in her
interpretations of silk, gender, and purity, discerning in her
understanding of the strangeness of language.—Tarpaulin Sky"As an
artist you have to be very lucky or very gifted to create anything
so compellingly amiss. If you can do it three times, you are more
than lucky. Machado’s is a career to follow."—Lana Turner
Journal
"Machado refuses the impositions or conventions of how we
understand narratives… The intention then is not to end in the way
we understand endings, but to keep it open-ended, so that we may
grapple with what an ending is. And in this grappling, Machado and
her madwoman merchant want to “watch [our] interior grow.” What
could be more intellectually invigorating than this?"—Carousel
Magazine"Seasoned with multi-lingual knowledge, served with love
and profound empathy, Emporium is a delicious, honest, and
congenial offering, the likes of which one rarely
encounters."—RHINO Poetry"Hers is an expansive lyric, one that
exists as a sequence of sections broken into postcard collage,
lyric fragment, prose exploration, billboard phrases and doctor’s
notes…Emporium is a story told through the collage, the
accumulation-collage of fragments, lyrics and prose-structures, one
with not even a narrative centre or even the character of the
merchant woman, but a seeking, searching, lyric heart."—rob
mclennan "Dear Aditi, I did receive 'Route Marienbad.' Read it. Had
the feeling I was discovering a real poet. A wonderful feeling. I
hope you keep this 'innocence,' this directness, this genuineness.
Bonne chance."—Etel Adnan
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