Control, by Cecilia Stelzer

Poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Control is a work of erotic, experimental poetry—ambiently disturbing and linguistically porous. It dissects the structures of sexual and societal power with mantic and corporeal intensity. The language flexes itself towards its undoing, its inverse, and its mirror. It traces out liminal spaces and works through ideas of possession, surveillance, technology, and dominance. Control’s verse bends language into new anatomies, with a style that is both abstract and obsessive. It layers and cuts through bodily and digital memory, subjecthood and objecthood, self and Other, autonomy and submission. It is a document of contemporary desire and control. “If Mina Loy got uploaded into a cuntstruck technomatrix, her poetry might read like this. Cecilia Stelzer is a master and Control is the 21st-century ride I want to be on.” —Catherine Wagner “What happens when I write into the temptation to believe that the algorithm knows what kind of sex I