"How glossy the plastic" by Ginger Ko
"How glossy the plastic" by Ginger Ko
How do colonial violences and cultural inheritances program the body? Ginger Ko’s How glossy the plastic inhabits and rewrites these codes: a poetics that is both mechanical and animal, “natural” and not. 21 pages. Hand-stiched. Two-layer letterpressed cover with rounded corners.
In the few seconds it takes to watch a horse with its neck snapped in half, head bouncing along its withers as it careens down a mountainside, in the few seconds it takes to feel a deep regret, in the few seconds it takes to forget the creature altogether when the lights flare their cones from above: pleasure made up of leisure and shame like slicing tubes width-wise for biscuits.
Ginger Ko is a graduate student at the University of Georgia, where she teaches writing and Women’s Studies. She is the author of Motherlover (Bloof Books) and Inherit (Sidebrow), as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays can be found in American Poetry Review, The Offing, VIDA Review, and elsewhere. You can find her online at www.gingerko.com.