Halim Madi

Books


I write books the way some people keep journals, or cast spells. Each one begins with a question: What’s worth answering, what haunts, what refuses to be googled. These books live between the inbox and the search bar, between the bruises of migration and the blush of desire. They’re field guides and love letters, gospel and glitch. Read them like instructions, or misread them entirely.
Invasions (Book)Jun’22San Francisco
Invasions: The Book is a poetry collection born from replying to spam texts. Each poem is an act of infiltration — cutting through the language of scams, power, and performance with humor, intimacy, and resistance. Written during the pandemic, the book explores identity, digital erosion, and poetic survival. These aren’t just poems. They’re artifacts of a world trying to make itself heard.
Deep & FastJul’21San Francisco
Deep & Fast is a book of found poetry. Every poem answers a question scraped from the internet: “Do we have guardian angels?”, “Can certain exercises lead to better sex?”. What emerges is a field guide for emotional survival. Less a book of answers than a slow undoing of the questions themselves. A poetic interruption in the flood of search, content, and self-help.
In the Name of ScandalApr’20San Francisco
 In the Name of Scandal is a book of poems about slut-shaming, queerness, migration, and the art of surviving exposure. Written during the pandemic, it reads like a gospel of the unbecoming: half confession, half sermon, half stand-up routine. Each poem tests the body’s threshold for shame, desire, and belief — a muscular poetics of love, faith, and self-permission.
Flight of the JaguarApr’18San Francisco
Flight of the Jaguar is a poetic bestiary about sluthood, queerness, migration, and altered states. Born in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, it took shape as both a printed book and a virtual jaguar rendered in VR. Form and function, text and body, medium and message collapse into one animal — inviting the reader not to read the poems, but to ride them.