The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. Not where to put them exactly, but how to print them out from the sky so they get sucked back down to earth. How to tell a noun from a category of noun, an image from a category of image. Cereal from USB ports. Motorcycles from escalators. Grapevines from hair elastics. Theyre more similar than youd think.
The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. On earth everyone is worried about objectsgetting them, naming them, maintaining them, destroying them, getting rid of them. Some people say objects will be the end of life on earth. Other people say objects will save us, if we get the right ones.
But as we reckon with these object-mediated futures, we live on an earth full of the stuff itself: fax machines, horseshoes, waves. Groceries is a guide for what to do about these objectshow to speak to them and how to listen for a reply.
