The Pretty Machine

The Pretty Machine will quicken your pulse. The Pretty Machine will hyperventilate you. In a good way. Everything about The Pretty Machine is urgent and necessary and damn beautiful.

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Praise for The Pretty Machine

What a beautiful debut collection Melissa Carroll has written! I was deeply moved by her sexy, imaginative, metaphysical poems, filled with wit and insight into the female psyche. Hers are the kind of poems I will read not once, but again and again.

—Nin Andrews, Why God Is a Woman, Southern Comfort, and Sleeping with Houdini

The Pretty Machine will quicken your pulse. The Pretty Machine will hyperventilate you. In a good way. Everything about The Pretty Machine is urgent and necessary and damn beautiful. This books traverses eastern philosophy to contemporary ideas of beauty, questioning and challenging what it means to be a 21st-century woman in America. The Pretty Machine is a grand debut that will take you to poetic places. Let it.

—Ira Sukrungruang, In Thailand It Is Night, The Melting Season, and Talk Thai: Adventures of Buddhist Boy

About the Author

Melissa Carroll is a writer, yoga teacher, and creative writing instructor at The University of Tampa. She also loves hiking and taking naps. She’s the editor of Going OM: Real-Life Stories on and off the Yoga Mat (Viva Editions 2014), which features essays from Dani Shapiro, Neal Pollack, and many others, with a foreword by Cheryl Strayed. Melissa’s poetry chapbook The Karma Machine (YellowJacket Press 2011) received The Peter Meinke Award, and her work has been published in New South Review, Poetry Quarterly, MindBodyGreen.com, Contemplative Journal, The Literary Bohemian, and elsewhere. In 2011 Melissa was an artist-in-residence through the National Parks Service at The Petrified National Forest in Arizona. A lifelong talker, she’s appeared on Daytime TV, CBS San Francisco, iHeartRadio, America’s Meditating Radio Show, and many podcasts. Melissa leads yoga and creative writing retreats all over the place, from Costa Rica to North Carolina to Tuscany. Learn more about her here.

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