Using the numerical structure of pi, MECHANOPHILIA is a collaborative epic by American poet Vi Khi Nao and Canadian poet Sarah Burgoyne (who have never met) that follows the omniscient conversations and complaints of ad hoc biblical characters as they attempt to make sense of themselves on an ordered, disordered planet. The first of four volumes completed so far, MECHANOPHILIA represents the first 3,000 decimal places of pi. Anachronistic in proportion, this work attempts to queer and rewrite myths in precise numerical pi chronology, yet its verses remain free and ludic, time-travelling at will and often looping in present-day concerns and figures (Lady Gaga, Elon Musk, Cai Guo-Qiang, Donald Trump, Phoebe Philo, Ryuichi Sakamoto). MECHANOPHILIA presents infinity as something reachable yet unrelated to linear time.
Poetry.
