Digital Logics

by Ashleigh Kennedy

44pp | 2027 | Paperback | ISBN N/A

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With formal innovation and lyric verve, Digital Logics journeys through online spaces, computer engineering, and artificial intelligence to reimagine identity and self-transformation within mechanized systems of power. This collection is at once mischievous, pensive, and deeply earnest in its invitation to forge new-fangled, multidimensional worlds of our own making. Ashleigh Kennedy offers the poetic self not as fixed but a technological magic trick: now you see her, now you don’t.

praise

“Digital Logics feels like an if-then-loop-code sequence of a fever dream mixed with the multi-faceted borders of language. The use of the imperative in this chapbook is unlike any other. I found the questioning of the speaker, of the android, of the Oracle, of the Girl, of Language; unbelievably smart and existential. I even found myself questioning the limitations and liminality of what it means for myself to be human, and what it means to be a glitch. I am flabbergasted at the incredible arc of these poems and anyone who picks up this chapbook will probably read it in one sitting.” —Joshua Nguyen, Come Clean

“Formally complex and linguistically innovative, Ashleigh Kennedy’s Digital Logics proposes an if/then conditional on the nature of racial, cultural, and personal identity in a world increasingly detached from what we might call reality. With thrilling incision and wry humor, Kennedy does the necessary work of teasing out places where digital technologies overlap with and hit the limits of faith, politics, the body, and language.” —Ellie Black, Revelator 

“The poems in Ashleigh Kennedy’s Digital Logics enchant and disturb, as prophecy should. Kennedy’s innovative, elegant forms sift through the nostalgia and terror of technology, racial identity, spirituality, and loss, speaking from the future directly to our ‘hamster-wheel/heart/spinning/like a cursor.’ This is a remarkable debut.” —Melissa Ginsburg, Runoff 

“From the black box of family history and from the perspective of a transnational adoptee, these inventive poems cast an electrifying light on identity for all of us.” —Anni Liu, Border Vista