Marianne Boruch is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Figure Going Imaginary (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), Bestiary Dark, and The Book of Hours, for which she won the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award. She has also published three essay collections about poetry, including The Little Death of Self, as well as a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler. A professor emerita at Purdue University, Boruch continues to teach in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Photograph by Will Dunlap.

Computer Blurs, Blackouts, Audio Hiccups, and Stardust

An Essay

by Marianne Boruch

It’s a time warp for me at the computer these days. And whether the wheel is inventing me, or me the wheel, I have no idea. Or I just have more trouble with Zoom than a lot of people do. That is, until I talk to some of those people.

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