Aimee Herman

Aimee Herman is a cyborg. Not in the sense of a mixture but: in her impetus. Her desire for a book to be a new kind of thinking and being in the world. As she writes in the startling Statement of Poetics that opens this passionate collection: ""This body of text practices trilingualism and contraction. Theories include gender confiscation and syntax dissection."" I liked that. A syntax that records what happens to a body even more than the words themselves. And that's just page one. Throw away ""the color pink,"" writes Herman, deeper in. —Bhanu Kapil