Description:
In her provocatively innovative and innovatively provocative poetry collection, Echolocation, Evelyn Reilly sounds out a techno-saturated world that perhaps we already occupy. She refuses easy answers or evaluations: animals are processed into food in brutal ways and the boundaries of person- and species-hood are expanded and exploded, while new forms of life and collectivity emerge. Bodies, of organism and of text, are ever-shifting, accumulating new modes of signification and habitation. The text becomes a habitat. Ever resourceful, Reilly interrogates " the natural" without discarding it. Instead, she ushers in an contemporary poetics that refuses hierarchical differentiation between the ecological and the technological; neither is demon or savior.
Brief description: Evelyn Reilly's books include Echolocation, Styrofoam, and Apocalypso (all published by Roof Books), Hiatus (Barrow Street Press), and Fervent Remnants of Reflective Surfaces (Portable Press at YoYo Labs). She works as a museum designer and lives in New York City.