Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Andrea Rexilius's first book, TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION, combines memoir, essay, performance, research, poetry, and lyric meditation to entwine, twist, and twin the physical and spiritual consequences of sisterhood. Through a series of investigations and experiments, the text transforms initial factual fragments into the bodily material of the (heard and unheard) language of intimates. "Our crime is she began to grow in my skin," writes Rexilius, "A con artist. A mammal. A flower at the back of my skull."
Author City: DENVER, CO USA
Andrea Rexilius completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Writing at the University of Denver. She is co-editor of Marcel Press. She is the author of TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION (Rescue Press, 2011) and HALF OF WHAT THEY CARRIED FLEW AWAY (Letter Machine Editions, 2011).
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interview by Olivia Cronk @ Bookslut
Eileen Tabios @ Galatea Resurrects