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I'm very happy to
introduce Bhanu Kapil.

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Bhanu teaches at Naropa's Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied

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Poetics and Goddard College.

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She's the author of four books
of prose/poetry, most recently

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Humanimal from
Kelsey Street Press

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and Schizophrene from Nightboat.

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Bhanu Kapil is a writer who
asks unexpected questions.

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For instance, in
her second book,

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Incubation: A
Space for Monsters,

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she asks about the experiences
of a young female cyborg

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immigrant hitchhiking
across unfamiliar territory.

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In her book Humanimal, she
questions liminal identity,

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turning to research
and documentary

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to create a mosaic like account
based on the true story of two

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girls found living with the
wolves in the Bengal region

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of India in 1920.

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And her newest book,
Schizophrene, she writes,

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do psychiatrists register the
complex in which vibrations

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produced by their
dreaming subjects?

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The indigo or
emerald green crown

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that coats the hair and
shoulders of an interviewee,

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erasing distinctions between
what is outside the sky

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and what's beneath it
that digs into the head?

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Kapil gains access to
such cerebral vibrations

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and other insights
invisible to most mortals.

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She enters as documenter,
interpreter, and creator

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of procedures that both
extract and create meaning,

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inviting the reader into
a space of poetic alchemy

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where the overlooked
often becomes illuminated.

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Please welcome, Bhanu Kapil.

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