"...Negative Money meditates on a life lived in the red, on the edge of great scarcity, and in the margins of emotional and financial stability. Cerebral, irreverent, and compassionate, Bertram's poetry investigates anti-Blackness, gender, late capitalism, technology, and artificial intelligence with muscular lyricism and illustrated world maps, mingling icons of the internet age with personal histories and social movements. The speaker in these poems...

At the First Clear Word -- emcee -- Touch -- The things-no-one-knows blues -- Ars poetica #789 -- Hip logic -- Sonnet -- Mr. T- --Shaft & the enchanted shoe factory or -- Ars poetica: The epic quest for language -- Squawk -- Butter -- Origin of the days -- Gospel of the two sisters / A Gram of &s -- abductor -- although -- ambulance -- apothecary -- beckoned -- bowling -- breathe -- careless -- corporal -- example / Conjure -- Friday poem -- For Paul...