"A World of Care and Intimacy": Rob Macaisa Colgate’s Hardly Creatures
"Emulating the structure of an accessible art museum sectioned off into nine wings, Hardly Creatures reorders abecedarians, re-sequences sestinas, and guides readers’ physical hands toward tracing the words on the page, all in its interrogation of social media, the disability community, and what forms of intimacy are accessible, and in what spaces."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. on Drafts
"What was this? Where did it come from? How did it get there? Had it not been in my notebook, in my handwriting, between two journal entries that I did recall writing, I would have tried to dismiss it somehow. But there it was. It would not be trifled with, so I put aside the various poetry experiments and series on which I’d been working and stepped into its weird lyric space-time of After the operation....” |
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