A review of Divya Victor's 'Natural Subjects'
Divya Victor’s new book Natural Subjects deconstructs the relationship between sentimental notions of authorial authenticity and normative models of citizenship in a way that will add some much needed bitters to your cocktail, at least if you can stomach it. The book is therefore, on a theoretical level, an absolutely refreshing and uniquely contrarian read. But on the level of the sonic and textual, it is also one of the most sumptuous, expressive, and musical books to come out of experimental poetry in recent years.
Near/Miss
New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.