Tender Machines
Barizo, J Mae
Set against the backdrop of a changing urban landscape, the poems in Tender Machines swing between the domestic and the surreal, charting motherhood, desire and an immigrant family's haunted inheritance. Mapping the lives of women and the lives they inhabit, poems such as "Small Essays on Disappearance, "--which channel the aftermath of motherhood and 9-11--collide with aubades describing mornings in a ruined city: "buying food at the bodegas....
