Horse by Rushika Wick
Horse is a science fiction hybrid book exploring ecological trajectories and the role of participation and witness. Fragments from culture and communications in the 21st century are being examined by an Archivist on a Space Station orbiting the Earth. Rushika Wick's poems bring together the natural, technological, and social dimensions of disaster, while still bearing traces of humanity, like a message in a bottle. Horse reminds us that language is itself a biological record.
PRAISE for Horse:
'In Horse, Rushika Wick doesn’t just search for a new ecopoetic, she demands that poetry work harder within the folds of its own artifice, offering a hauntingly generative collection that’s neither extinct nor extant. Here, Wick highlights the biases that govern the human imagination – its technologies and texts – despite our best attempts at forms of ‘deep listening’ and sustained attention. This interstellar archive, a multi-species anthology of dreams, transcripts, meals, and diary entries, contains epic qualities as worlds are measured against words, messages against meaning, life against its documentation. A feat of innovation.'
— Kate Elspeth Simpson
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