Below contraption sky

This manuscript arises from an interest in madness and music as interlocking forces through which poetry might shine. I oscillate between poems grounded in the machine-place of our geography and in fixed form, and those that instead float upwards. Some of the poems included in the manuscript take their setting and some of their language from the Modern School at Stelton, an early twentieth century anarchist colony in central Jersey based on the pedagogical teachings of Spanish educator Francisco Ferrer, where children could study what they wanted, or not study at all. I hope to unsettle ideas of rationality and order, and instead cling to what resonates loudly.