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Read Me gathers the tools necessary to make sense of contemporary problems so ubiquitous they seem too big to name. Spanning a multiplicity of genres, media, and tonal registers, this book surveys Holly Melgard’s formally experimental poetic works produced between 2008 and 2023, including sound poems, essays on poetics, and books that exploit print on demand to, for example, counterfeit money. In often wildly comic turns of thought, Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency from automated defaults by mapping trauma and technocracy from the inside out. From critical talks to fictional monologues, the poet translates into language the unremarkable torments of neoliberalization in the digital age.

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Holly Melgard is the author of Fetal Position (Roof), named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best of 2021.” In addition to publishing the chapbooks Catcall (UDP) and Divisions of Labor (Make Now), she has also self-published ten books of poetry on Troll Thread Press, including Black Friday and The Poems for Baby trilogy, as well as the co-authored books (along with Joey Yearous-Algozin) White Trash and Liquidation. She is a co-editor and designer of Troll Thread Press (co-founded with Yearous-Algozin, Chris Sylvester, and Divya Victor), which is a print-on-demand/free PDF download platform. Having performed her work at such sites as the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, her work has also appeared in BOMB Magazine, Best American Experimental Poetry anthology, and was translated in the German journal Merkur. She wrote her doctorate in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program on “Poetics of Ubiquitization: Textual Conditions of and for the Ubiquitous Computing Age.” A recent guest faculty in the Banff Winter Writers Retreat, she currently teaches writing at New York University and City University of New York, freelance book designs, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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