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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Vi Khi Nao : Umbilical Hospital & A Brief Alphabet of Torture
Description: âThese pieces are elaborate pieceworkâperforated, whip stitched, and distressed field-dressed dissections of language. Tortured? Maybe. But lusciously junked & juxtaposed, turned inside out & every which way but . . . No, in every way they make way.ââMichael Martone
âImagine an entity composed of sheep, wheat, assholes, clitorises, stars. Why not? That would be this poem, this worldâa perfectly recognizable post-human world which is also post surreal. Vi Khi Nao is making it new, no, she is doing the old job of making us see whatâs already here in a new way.ââRae Armantrout