I'm very happy to introduce Bhanu Kapil.
Bhanu teaches at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics and Goddard College.
She's the author of four books of prose/poetry, most recently
Humanimal from Kelsey Street Press
and Schizophrene from Nightboat.
Bhanu Kapil is a writer who asks unexpected questions.
For instance, in her second book,
Incubation: A Space for Monsters,
she asks about the experiences of a young female cyborg
immigrant hitchhiking across unfamiliar territory.
In her book Humanimal, she questions liminal identity,
turning to research and documentary
to create a mosaic like account based on the true story of two
girls found living with the wolves in the Bengal region
of India in 1920.
And her newest book, Schizophrene, she writes,
do psychiatrists register the complex in which vibrations
produced by their dreaming subjects?
The indigo or emerald green crown
that coats the hair and shoulders of an interviewee,
erasing distinctions between what is outside the sky
and what's beneath it that digs into the head?
Kapil gains access to such cerebral vibrations
and other insights invisible to most mortals.
She enters as documenter, interpreter, and creator
of procedures that both extract and create meaning,
inviting the reader into a space of poetic alchemy
where the overlooked often becomes illuminated.
Please welcome, Bhanu Kapil.
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