Description
Poetry. This song cycle is a raw and mutating cry from within an ecological surround undergoing massive upheaval and duress. REMEMBERING ANIMALS chronicles the animal in all the complexity of such a categorization, revealing the ways in which bodies are marked and evaluated, used as resource, violated and occluded from history. It is a botched text!it is problematic and scarred. It hurts and registers the hurt. There is no comfort zone. These poems contort out of the marked position of human to bring an intimate awareness of our interrelational vibrancy.
"Iijima's eco-provocations have the lightness and gravitas of an improbably reconsecrated world glimpsed at its hectic, interrogatively driven conception. On the edge of loss, words have taken on direct agency."—Joan Retallack
Author Bio
Brenda Iijima is a poet, playwright, choreographer and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her recent work includes BIONIC COMMUNALITY (Roof Books, 2021), REMEMBERING ANIMALS (Nightboat Books, 2016), and UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN OUT BEYOND THE HORIZON (1913 Press, 2015). Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression and telluric awareness in all forms. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA