Emporium is a key contribution to an emerging phenomenon in contemporary poetics—the development of what I am calling a silk poetics … a poetics that is, like silk, fungible and multiple.
—Toby Altman, “Silk Poetics,” The Georgia Review
As an artist you have to be very lucky or very gifted to create anything so compellingly amiss. If you can do it three times, you are more than lucky. Machado’s is a career to follow.
—Cal Bedient, Lana Turner 13
… a work that comes from the margins—and from many of them simultaneously, decentering her center of trade and commerce, and leaving us with an emporium of possibility made by a magician’s hands and a visionary’s eyes.
—Gillian Conoley, Fady Joudah, and Cole Swensen (James Laughlin Award judges)
“Ten Best Poems of the Past Ten Years,” The Common Reader
“The Best Poetry of 2020,” The New York Times
Ms. Magazine’s “2021 Poetry for the Rest of Us”
Starred Review at Publishers Weekly
Starred Review at Library Journal
More Reviews at Carousel, EcoTheo Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Rhino, rob mcclennan’s blog, Tarpaulin Sky, & Vagabond City
Interview by Sohini Basak at Honey Literary
Interview by Mallika Singh at the Nightboat Blog
You can read the prologue to this book at The Brooklyn Rail.