Description Poetry.
The Monster here abides in the everyday, contingent, ephemeral, omnipresent: \'Alive, what motion is begun?\'"--John Keene.
It keeps slipping away from you, and delivering you somewhere new, like a river in a dream."--Johanna Hedva "Jay Besemer\'s THE Ways OF THE Monster provides us with poetic phenomenology of the interior and exterior, of minds surveying and essaying the world, embodied consciousnesses moving through and refiguring the surrounding landscapes.
There are bodies, animals, objects, ideas, cities, and spirits, and there\'s a wetness to everything.
The I and the you can\'t be trusted to be who they say they are, who you expect them to be.
Sometimes you know it only because it\'s the thing that shifts.
The body is here but in pieces, promises, refusals, apparitions. "This is a text about the problem of being and the problem of matter: what matters, but also how being is matter, and what that feels like, what it can mean.
This book is part of The Operating System\'s Kin(d) Books and Projects Imprint, which is devoted to transgender and nonbinary creative practitioners.
With the poet\'s customary sensory and linguistic saturation, THE Ways OF THE Monster confronts violence with refusal and counters abjection with contagious self-mutation.
Unpacking the tightly condensed formal page of his previous books, Jay Besemer now moves with readers through and between the physical and imaginary aspects of the "everyday": an actual, experienced urban Chicago; a totally fantastical Los Angeles; absurd encounters too complex to be legible, or legibly verbalized.
Continuing and expanding the themes of CHELATE, THE Ways OF THE Monster takes us through the everyday performance of inhabiting bodies that complicate the social landscape.
Disability Studies.
LGBTQIA Studies.
Description Poetry
