One aim of my writing has been to answer aesthetic and ethical imperatives that stretch the limits of selfhood and public address in lyric form. To this end, I’ve channeled the languages of “current events,” journalism, state demagoguery, advertising, the ethnographic account, and the pathologies of violence and massacre, as extensions of a self—“myself”—sometimes at a fever pitch, other times in less strident syllables. Alert to the historically contingent events by which a subject is shaped, I explore limit experience by welcoming cultural contradiction, failed acts, and the ambivalence of sexed perception.