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Poetry. "From insecticide to plastic heels, no one has explored the disturbing intimacies between persons and things that arise in a system of exploited labor with as much insight as Yedda Morrison. Addressed to a world in which everything is brutally functionalized, and in which `There is not, nor has there ever been a genderless sale,' her poetry unflinchingly confronts the violence behind the production of the sweet. One of the most original and aesthetically powerful books I have read in years"--Sianne Ngai. "From the actual valleys of Northern California to Installation Body-Machine Art, Morrison's writing is an overtly staged poetry; topicality is given the tight squeeze in order to counter a full re-absorption into `proper' field designations--journalism, art criticism, programmatic politics, etc. These poems don't just twizzle their `localities'--they converge on them to move them"--Rodrigo Toscano.