EVENING WILL COME: A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POETICS (ISSUE 15: MARCH 2012)

Andrea Rexilius
                       First Residue: Perforation          (page 4)


       What is the relationship between the text and the body in your writing?

It is a woman's body. An escalating, asymptotic body. An incoherent body. A libidinal body. A regime of female attractiveness. A manifold body. A body that marks the course of human history. A deployed body. A sexually assaulted body that refuses. A body that accuses. A constant locus of resistance to pain, or constriction, or tedium, or semi self-starvation, or condemnation; a rebellion. This body embarks because it is necessary. Though impulse alone is not inevitable. This body holds no preoccupation with youth or beauty. It holds no orientation to “styles of the flesh.” It is its own aesthetic enhancing of lines and graying hair. It is extraordinary and extraordinarily obese, a sign of great pleasure without imposed cost.


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