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<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Insert Coin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the reckless project of American capitalism and imperialism is felt through four characters-a contestant a drone operator a monster and a prisoner-who interact in a world of game shows chain-of-command killing and confusion around the virtual and the real. Through video games fantasy and drone warfare by joystick the book chronicles dissociation and denial as well as a soul longing for meaning in a world whose absurd violence and demand for profit feels simulated but is all too real.</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Insert Coin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> launches an experimental syntax with strict formal constraints such as a 6-syllable line by 8-line stanza sequence to suggest the unbearable dimensions of a solitary confinement cell. In these poems a civilization that can only imagine destruction asks how do I get to the next level?</span></p>