Glitchwork
[the87Press / Wesleyan University Press, 2026]
Praise
Mantra Mukim’s Glitchwork is a work of endocrine wreckage. It makes and re-makes a circuit between abundance and destruction on every page, a form of metallurgical labour deployed as syntax. Here it all is: the ‘infra/system’, ‘soft detritus’, a ‘wound without an outside’. Mukim’s profound adaptation to the book as it is being written, and can never be written, moved me deeply. What a stunning writer he is.
— Bhanu Kapil
Mantra Mukim’s Glitchwork is an astounding work that defies any conventional enclosures in terms of form, thought, narration, and time. Mukim notes that ‘the angel knows that it was invented not for deliverance but apparitions’. Glitchwork was invented to excavate apparitions of history and language, and perhaps poetry itself. The visions it offers us are ‘something rare, holy, or supernatural in tangible form’—a form of line travel within ever shifting, powerful ‘darshan, the hegemony of the seen’
— Don Mee Choi
Glitchwork remains endemic with haunting, with magical apostrophe, that weaves itself, with an intrinsic temperature that seems to dis-incline itself, powerfully in-scripting itself by means of seeming poetic ejecta baring insight by living lingual minimum.
— Will Alexander
I am truly amazed by Mantra Mukim’s Glitchwork. It seems to alchemise the many forms of twenty-first century lyric writing — prose, erasure, documentary, remix and more — in brilliant illustration of its own statement: ‘Long poem spreads the message of breakdown in the four known directions’. Endlessly quotable, it is one of the essential long poems of this decade.
— Jeremy Noel Tod
Interview
Porous Lines (with Victoria Adukwei Bulley)
Excerpts