Christine Hume reviewed Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal, A Project for Future Children in the September/October 2009 issue of the American Poetry Review. Hume tells us that “[the body is]  the book’s ultimate subject” and she calls the book “amniotic”.

In this feedback loop, Humanimal offers the body as  a model of articulation, making a case for experience as a distinct form of meaning. Once Kapil frees her subjects from concept and returns them to the savage materiality of existence, they wander restlessly back and forth. Across species and cultures, Kapil’s’ characters co-shape one another in layers of reciprocating complexity.

Hume even ventures that the physiology of the reader shifts when crossing the Humanimal threshold, face and book intersecting as myriad-dimensional planes.

Check it out in the latest issue of APR!

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