Open Source

Author: Warren C Longmire

Publisher: Radiator Press (2021)

“Open Source is a book we’ve been waiting for in Philly, from a poet who can sing its songs through smog and shame with such tender aplomb that it makes me wanna wander these streets we share in search of myself, in search of us. This book be its own city of errant and ecstatic bodies.”

—Yolanda Wisher

“In Warren C. Longmire’s magnificent debut, Open Source, he unlocks worlds within worlds through virtuosic language, lush in its inventiveness and precision. No well-earned scar is unworthy of a praise song in this sprawling collection that casts its gaze toward the atomic and the infinite, ‘local and yet lightyears away,’ as Longmire holds a mirror to the complicated dimensions of the self, the city of his birth, and the technology he invokes to map the depths of humanity and inhumanity in our midst. This urgent and essential book left me awed.”

—Carlos Andrés Gómez