Description
The Ghost Was Always The Machine is an artist’s book which blends digital and analog platforms. You’ll be bouncing between this book and web pages. You’ll only be able to access the web pages with passwords which can be deduced from the content of the poems and the hints laid out in the analog portion of the book.
The poems in this book must be exhumed, peeled apart, summoned, disassembled, and re-assembled. It is strongly encouraged that you take notes. Write in this book. Dog-ear the pages. Bookmark websites. Use the book as an umbrella. Eat pizza off of it. Make this book your own. There are more poems than are listed in the table of contents. You’ll have to be clever if you want to find all the poems.
RJ Walker is a performance poet and voice actor from Salt Lake City, Utah. RJ has performed at the national poetry slam numerous times, representing Salt Lake City, and Sugar House Utah. At the Individual World Poetry Slam he was a showcased poet on final stage and placed 6th overall at the 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam. RJ won the NPS Spirit of the Slam award for organizing the first Compliment Deathmatch event. The next year he placed 4th at the National Poetry Slam with the Salt City Unified team. RJ Won the 2020 Button Poetry Video Contest with his poem “Face Blind.”
He is the host and operator of The Greenhouse Effect Open Mic, SLC’s longest running and most popular open mic style event. His poem, “Deceit & I,” received viral reception on youtube and imgur, published in journals like A Plus, EMS1, and EMSWorld with over 500,000 cumulative Views.
78pgs.
ISBN: 978-1-942547-15-0
Author: Walker, RJ
Publisher: Blue Sketch Press
Subject: Poetry
Publication Date: 20211015
Binding: TRADE PAPER
Language: English
