Anything that Bleeds (Lily Pearl Veinia)

The Flesh is poet Lily Pearl Veinia’s posthuman ode to the natural world and to the female body, which melts and decays into the former. Across freeform poetry and rhyming verse, Veinia chronicles how we hurt ourselves to please others, yet chooses to cultivate an intimate love and nourishment for the physical self, inseparable from love and nourishment for the physical world.

Unceremoniously gruesome and undeniably human, The Machine draws its power from poet Lily Pearl Veinia’s posthuman fixation on what lies between the body and the machine. In her debut collection, Veinia examines bodies that rust and falter, probing the pain and pleasure of searching for connection in a world we struggle to relate to yet are inescapably a part of.