Gut Botany charts my body / language living on indigenous land as a
white settler and traveler," Petra Kuppers writes in the notes of
her new poetry collection. Using a perfect cocktail of surrealist
and situationalist techniques, Kuppers submits to the work and to
the land, moving through ancient fish, wounded bodies, and the
space around her. The book invites the reader to navigate their own
body through the peaks and pitfalls of pain, survival, sensual joy,
and healing. Gut Botany is divided into eight sections. In "Court
Theatre," Kuppers revisits courtroom performances following her
sexual assault while drawing from the works of Perel and Bhanu
Kapil. "Asylum" grew out of the Asylum Project performance
experiments that Kuppers co-directed with dancer/poet Stephanie
Heit. "Moon Botany" began as a collaboration with visual artist
Sharon Siskin and offers a wheelchair user's view of insects,
mushrooms, and horsetail ferns. Amber DiPetra notes that "this book
is beautiful when it needs to be beautiful and it is edgy when it
needs to be edgy and that is the sign of writing that matters."
Readers looking for experimental poetry that takes up space in
their brains and bodies will dive deep and fast into this queer
ecosomatic investigation.
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