Sex Machines

Author: Jamie Townsend Publisher: speCt! Books (2020) "Desolately polychromatic & technological, porcelain & pink, the un-care- bearesque low hanging fruit of Jamie Townsend’s perfervid and earnest Sex Machines isn’t entirely 'a rainbow against extinction' nor a colossal countenance in its bacchanality. Their exfoliating voluptuous words are verdant, pop-culture awake, lunar, patinated, mostly tender and at other times a 'heavy scrotum of hosiery and pearls.' With so much darkness, laced with 'sartorial sorrow,' in this world, Jamie Townsend’s sinuous poetry, ancient and modern in its cultural symmetry, is that surrogate light that could unwrap dusk and gloom and make our desire bald with every single sudden cloudburst from their magnificent soul." —Vi Khi Nao "These are like poems written in lipstick on a steamy mirror, and you’re looking at yourself and seeing is reading and reading is seeing the smeary lipstick on and not on your mouth, like being with Venus in freefal