
In UNMANNED, Jessica Rae Bergamino guides readers into a sustained, inventive reimagining of space--its travelers, its machines, its mappings, its strange paths to finding love. With feet firmly planted in earthly references and a boldly interstellar head, Bergamino's poems call out new ways of imagining myths of femme figures. They invite me to an exhilarating reconsideration of how one might see the stars and life beneath them. Inside the subjectivity of the Voyager space probes, we find enough dazzling distance to embrace all our zodiac selves and queer desires. We are a lucky galaxy to get this book!
Jessica Rae Bergamino is the author of UNMANNED, winner of Noemi Press' 2017 Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks The Desiring Object or Voyager Two Explains to the Gathering of the Stars How She Came to Glow Among Them (Sundress Publications), The Mermaid, Singing (dancing girl press), and Blue in All Things: a Ghost Story (dancing girl publications). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Third Coast, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and Gulf Coast. She is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and lives in Seattle, WA.