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title: Invasions - Halim Madi
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/books/invasions/
description: Poetry responses to scam texts, a meditation on identity and poetic resistance that reclaims manipulative language as lyric.
generated: 2026-09-06
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# Invasions

Jun '22 - Apr '24
San Francisco, Los Angeles, CDMX, Santa Barbara, Ojai

- [Kickstarter ↗](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theheeledpoet/invasions-poetry-to-strike-back-at-robotexts)
- [Amazon ↗](https://www.amazon.com/Invasions-Poetry-Strike-Robotexts-Halims/dp/B0C644BZRZ)

![Invasions - cover](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/books/invasions/cover.png)

*Invasions: The Book* is a poetry collection that began as replies to scam texts and evolved into a meditation on identity, intrusion, and poetic resistance. Written during the pandemic, the work reimagines violation as invitation by scavenging from capitalist language - scam emails, fake job offers, and seductive text messages. Each piece represents an act of reclamation, transforming manipulation into lyric and interruption into ritual.

The collection explores what happens when language arrives not to connect, but to extract. In these poems, spam becomes spell, with the poet functioning as responder, echo, and ghost. Invasions operates both as theme and method, investigating what it means to be porous in a world constantly attempting to sell, use, or remake you.

Originally self-published and distributed through experimental readings and mailings, the book exists as a poetic artifact and aesthetic ethic: respond to what invades you, and name it beautiful.

![Invasions - kickstarter](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/books/invasions/kickstarter.png)

![Invasions - outside](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/books/invasions/outside.jpg)

![Invasions - inside](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/books/invasions/inside.jpg)