6AMING by Matt Turner

September, 2026

Available for pre-order

6AMING was begun while watching Jacques Rivette’s 13-hour film Out 1, a film with acting, conspiracies, gossip, threesomes and more. 6AMING documents the slow and quick passage of time in a placeless place––sometimes on the screen, sometimes around people and things. Fragmentary narratives that mimic automatic writing, enumerating the world happening within brief minutes, they game the facts of the mind as if those facts were poems. Influenced by the experimental music of contemporary Beijing, 6AMING presents the world as all that is the case: détourned text.

In Matt Turner’s 6AMING, both time and language are fragmented. Nothing is continuous. Everything is paused & restarted. Not unlike life itself. Turner uses the lyric’s atemporal structure to ask bold questions about linearity, progress, and the myths of wholeness. Amazingly, in a book that celebrates caesuras and incompleteness, there is never a moment of stasis. It’s all movement. Motion. It is rare when a work of art can be simultaneously disjointed and fluid, but this is one of those instances. Jump in. Turner has made a myriad of spaces for you. 

—DEAN RADER

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Matt Turner is the author of four additional full collections of poetry, most recently The Places (BlazeVOX 2025), and three chapbooks. He has translated or co-translated around a dozen books from Chinese, focusing on China’s contemporary avant-garde––including, notably, works by Yan Jun, Wan Xia, and Ou Ning. His essays and reviews can be found in Cha, Hyperallergic Weekend, Bookforum and elsewhere. He lives in New York City, where he is a commercial translator and copy editor.

Excerpts may be found at Ballast, Cha, Pamenar, Voice & Verse, and Antiphony: a journal & press

NO U-TURN—6AMING: Themes and Contexts by Matt Turner (Cha).

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