A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and\u00a0back.<\/p>\n
Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium where our neural pathways are \u201calways shared, collective, and entangled.\u201d In this \u201cmore-than-human lyric,\u201d heidi andrea restrepo rhodes offers the ampersand, a mode of encounter that unfixes the reader. This form\u2014a lyric prose poem beginning, midsentence, with an ampersand\u2014accesses the intimacies of a life shaped by perpetual \u201cand-ing.\u201d These ampersands move by associative leap, synesthetic braid, and interspecies blur to revel in everything that makes us more than singular\u00a0subjects.<\/p>\n
Neuroqueering poetics, rhodes writes toward deft and loving excess: spillage, echolalia, stutter, loop, and non-linear detour, refiguring what the lyric can be and what the body can do. These poems revolt against all forms of supremacy, inviting us into unexpected kinship with animal, mineral, vegetal, and heavenly bodies, each replete with their own languages, temporalities, histories, and\u00a0worlds.<\/p>\n
Tending an everyday eroticism with its \u201cheart at the sleeve, in the palm,\u201d Ampersand Organ is unafraid to feel, to feel again, to feel feeling wherever it\u2019s wildly felt. Here is a radiant, divergent, emergent field guide for how we might all shiver and shimmer into the and and and .\u00a0.<\/p>\n
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker, and creature of the Colombian diaspora. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation alum and recipient of the 2023 Creative Capital Award, they have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar Productions, and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in unceded Acjachemen and Tongva lands, otherwise known as Southern\u00a0California.<\/p>\n
Imogen Smith is a poet and transsexual. She is the author of\u00a0raw & zero\u00a0and\u00a0stemmy things, both published by Nightboat Books. Her writings have appeared in this journal and that, and she is the recipient of fellowships from The Poetry Project and NYFA. imogen loves true punks, hates cops of all denominations, and believes in a free Palestine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64531,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-428694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bookstore-events","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}