Ambient Technology

by Ashley Obscura

Poetry. Women's Studies. In this passionate sophomore collection of poetry, Ashley Obscura's poetry explores the function of connection in a post-digital age and how one situates the self and creates meaning within the unions and chasms of our physical, virtual and spiritual selves. Ambient Technology occupies a space that bridges that gap between our visible and invisible worlds, between sentiment and emoji, between the opening and closing of heart matter. With great lust and desire, Obscura unearths something indestructible within ourselves, and lands amongst new tones of being and belonging in the sparkly lining of a too-real world.

Genres: Poetry

156 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2018

Reviews

[Nick Carraway LLC · Rating 3 out of 5]

1) "Imagine a beam of light shooting out of my heart but instead of going into you it wanders into the center of the universe, which is you standing in the sparkly white grass inside my wilderness. We make our way together toward the incredible bright light. Light takes 1.255 seconds to get from the earth to the moon. We kiss for a long time."

2) "Your eyes are beds of moss
And your tongue is a pine tree
And my mouth is the sky
Our bodies are gardens
The golden gradient
A tingling in my spine
A stem
A spiral"

3) "I've written nothing of substance of you
I was too happy
This is my consolation"

4) "You take the lightness out of me
You put me back in the dark
Like the way motion cuts the calm
Smoke on the facets"

5) "People just want to hold
Without being held
And vice versa"

6) "Water has a way of finding the beach"

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This poetry collection by Metatron editor Ashley Obscura is an open-hearted exploration of love and meaning in an age when we are using technology to make fundamental changes in the ways we interact with each other. But it's also not.

It's also the poetry of someone who thinks and lives poetically. Imagery is sparse. Her lines and phrases float un-anchored. They are epigrammatic, they are incantations.

[Nicole Boychuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing and beautiful
transcendent

[Ima · Rating 4 out of 5]

de las mejores poetas contemporaneas

[Catalina Espinoza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leí la versión en español que se llama “Sexo por última vez” y me encantó. Cada poema me hizo sentir inspirada y creativa y recordando el amor en cada verso.

[Mae Lees · Rating 5 out of 5]

These poems bit into my heart like an apple. so many dog eared pages. just yes.

[Genevieve Michaels · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very psychedelic and colourful