The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon

Author: Latif Askia Ba

Publisher: Stillhouse Press (2022)

In The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, Latif Askia Ba brilliantly delineates the possibilities of the imagination as he builds a bulwark against humanity’s creeping sense of hopelessness. By finding meaning in coding, mathematics, video games, music, dancing, and–most of all–poetry, Ba shows us that, regardless of the abilities we’re born with, we are all capable of extraordinary things. A meditation on the body, the African-American experience, and what it means to live in the United States and the world as a disabled man, Ba’s work is also, at its considerable heart, an ode to the poet’s psyche and a testament to human capability.