The Next Crystal Text by Melissa Mack (Timeless, Infinite Light, paperback)
Publication Date: March 8, 2018
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. California Interest. THE NEXT CRYSTAL TEXT connects the glittering consumption of gems to the brutal exploitation of their production, undermining our cultural myths of beauty, wealth, and the feminine. These multiform poems accrete language from geology and political resistance into a faceted amalgam that's completely original. Dazzling and various, it both mimics and critiques the intricacy of global capitalist systems.
