Poetry. "One thing I really like about Sophie Sills and Aristotle is their shared sense that music emerges most directly from a sense of awe in apprehending the object. Or, more precisely in the case of ELEMENTAL PERCEPTIONS, a portrait of interiority silenced by the overtakeless burden of elements in concert which in turn overthrow silence as song. Do you think atoms fuck? That's the crass way of reading Sills's insistence on the body's endlessly reducible parts playing out a drama in which theirconnection is constantly extinguished and constantly renewed. I read this astonishing work as that very drama disclosed in the realm of human exchange, battered by ideology into diffuseness yet arranging 'coherence' itself as a revolutionary plateau. A plateau of necessity, and from the beginning, absorbed into the rhetoric of philosophical doubt: 'I consent to a solvency of sorts'"—Brandon Brown.

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Sophie Sills completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College in 2009. She has published poetry and literary criticism in numerous journals. She teaches English at National University and works for a Jewish non-profit. Currently, she is the editor of the poetry magazine Peacock Online Review. Sophie lives in Los Angeles, and she is happy.

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