Emporium (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781643620299)

In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a merchant woman as she travels a twenty-first century "silk route." As on the original silk route, this merchant is engaged in economic transactions but also cultural exchanges, un-monetizeable reciprocities, the sensory excesses of the marketplace: coins moving from hand to hand, the smell of food and sweat infusing the air, the "noise" of translation and multilingualism. Is this tradeswoman in control of her "destiny"/business or is she a commodity of impenetrable global forces? Her investigative, digressive travel seems a way to interrogate history and money and her own entanglement in such irresistible threads.

Author: Aditi Machado
ISBN-10: 1643620290
ISBN-13: 9781643620299
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2020
Library Journal 09/01/2020 pg. 71