Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen by tommy blake

tommy blake’s fourth chapbook, Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen is a deeply badass poetic manifesto of teenhood in a lawless virtual landscape. blake makes use of all the internetisms you knew and loved to MS-paint a vivid picture of queer coming-of-age experience through the e-graveyard of MySpace that’s been resurfacing from the soil as hyperpop and trauma. “Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen is a true inter-face. Bounding between the neon-hued, mall-bound signifiers of zillennial youth and the bruised, “sickyellow dusk[s]” underneath, this text gnashes at the agonywork of adolescence. Charging toward a comprehensive “tauntology” of childhood trauma, blake seizes their Lip Smackers, builds a house, and promptly sets fire to the sicksweet kindling.” —[sarah] Cavar, author of OUT OF MIND & INTO BODY (Ethel Press, 2022) “tommy blake’s Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen is not just a love letter to what virtual landscapes we’ve become infatuated with, but a beautiful undertak