Chimeric Machines

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, Lucy A. Snyder's Chimeric Machines is a fiercely intelligent, visceral journey into the uncanny. Spanning thirty-eight masterfully crafted poems, this collection fuses a deep background in biological science with a fearless exploration of the macabre. From the silent internal monologue of a cosmic black hole to a dead man awkwardly returning "Home for the Holidays," Snyder's work is packed with sly wordplay, dark humor, and a grounded, raw emotional truth. By turns lyrical, elegant, and unapologetically strange, Chimeric Machines is an essential masterwork from one of modern dark speculative fiction's most brilliant, genre-defying voices.