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A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.