hi (edited)

Aspasiology study, April 2016,
​plus Lisa Cattrone on Posy:

“It is hard not to notice how much the white men of academic poetry are not in this book of poems. Instead, it is too full of the truth of things. The part of the brain that is activated with this work is different than that of the rigor of connecting allusions. The brain, though, is worked just as hard and the sensation of intellectual gain is a product of a different kind of rigor. Light, warmth, and places of silence allow the brain to develop different tendrils. A garden grows in the gray flesh and releases oxygen. Intellectual rigor becomes a mother talking in a private language to her daughter about the manifestation of everything and nothing and the imagination of both. It is an intellectual rigor that capitalizes on the strength of quiet resistance. It finds its own corner to curl into with its entire universe. The byproduct of its labor is radical love. Radical love is an intellectual and rigorous process of language and moment and very different than that of allusion.”