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Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.
C’mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’s hormonal transition, stretching the upper limits of homophonic translation to unleash the unexpected queer resonances of Louis Zukofsky’s “A.” E alchemizes mishearing into a political possibility of glitching, noncompliance, and protest. Not a translation, but maximally trans, mishearing transmutes language to generate new possibilities: how hormones change the body; how relationships evolve, multiply, and implode over time.
—Riley Yaxley, Chicago Reader
"E is as much a book about hearing what is essential, and how that essence resonates in everything and in everyone, as it is a guide for here-ing, helping us learn to “Be here now,” in the words of the late Ram Dass."
—Joseph Byrd, antiphony