Hervé Guibert

Shiv Kotecha

Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Poetry. "Like a post- conceptual Pompeii, Shiv Kotecha's EXTRIGUE archives the rubble of language as forensics. Freud's Little Hans meets Lynch's Mulholland Drive. EXTRIGUE works repetition and perception in order to collapse time. Through his numbered sequencing of the human stain, Kotecha pulls us into an endless present: '345. A FLAME THAT FADES INTO A PHONE A MAN THAT FADES INTO A MAN A LAMP THAT FADES INTO A BOOK SMOKE THAT FADES INTO A HAT.' EXTRIGUE, outside of self, is the canoptic jar of the now."—Kim Rosenfield

Extrigue

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. THE SWITCH compiles three books in one: 1. an extended apology, in verse, for friendship and desire 2. a fictional "obedience residency manual" 3. a poem by the unlovable Lord fucking Shiva "Poetry is never lost in a politics of refusal, and even in the most flirtatious behavioral studies of human and non-human desire for connection... Kotecha's ballast is clearly his feeling for the radiance of form-switching itself."--Corina Copp, BOMB, Fall 2018 "Shiv Kotecha does for the word fucking what Catullus did for the word kissing. In The Switch, desire travels everywhere to its surprisingly specific destinations--to body parts aroused in their fashion, like a saint's skull or a cock. Here love is as artificial as a courtly dialogue, and deeply felt, even spiritual. Here the arousal of the fragmented body is contemporary practice. Is one allowed to write such a book? Among the spectacular effects and turns and startling intimacies in THE SWITCH, the most daring is its no-holds-barred pursuit of love."--Robert Glück "Shiv Kotecha's deeply weird and affecting book THE SWITCH works with prosaic measure and measured prose to compress the mess of everyday sexual feeling, the mess of everyday relating (both on and off the planet of the genital) into these often perfect lines."--Hannah Black

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