# Emporium

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- Book: [Emporium](https://www.bookquiver.com/aditi-machado/emporium) ([Emporium.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aditi-machado/emporium.md))
- Authors: [Aditi Machado](https://www.bookquiver.com/aditi-machado)
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- ISBN: 978-16-4362-029-9
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2020-12-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a merchant woman as she travels a twenty-first century “silk route.” As on the original silk route, this merchant is engaged in economic transactions but also cultural exchanges, un-monetizeable reciprocities, the sensory excesses of the marketplace: coins moving from hand to hand, the smell of food and sweat infusing the air, the “noise” of translation and multilingualism. Is this tradeswoman in control of her “destiny”/business or is she a commodity of impenetrable global forces? Her investigative, digressive travel seems a way to interrogate history and money and her own entanglement in such irresistible threads.