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The poems here mince no words but instead treat them like notes; staccato on a jazz riff. Or the music of a Phillip Glass piece—pulsing and building so the words and rhythm mesh into your nervous system. The part that makes you tap out a beat helps you remember the words. This is effective as there is so much here we need to remember: African American lives of history makers—Harriet Tubman, Medgar Evers, Malcom X—as well as those lost to violence. Travesty Generator is original and thrilling.

Like a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data. The poems pay homage to lives taken too soon, those of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, pulls heroes like Harriet Tubman into the present, and offers the wisdoms spoken by Black mothers to their children. Travesty Generator reminds us that program...