Negative Money meditates on a life lived in the red, on the edge of great scarcity, and in the margins of emotional and financial stability. Cerebral, irreverent, and compassionate, Bertram's poetry investigates anti-Blackness, gender, late capitalism, technology, and artificial intelligence with muscular lyricism and illustrated world maps, mingling icons of the internet age with personal histories and social movements. The speaker in these poems recognizes the oppressive systems that dominate and exhaust life under the constraint of relentless extraction violently fracturing practices of collective love and intimacy, weaving through time as readers follow a voice that comes of age, revisits selves, and probes the thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness.,Page 4 of cover.