Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Andrea Rexilius's first book, TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION, combines memoir, essay, performance, research, poetry, and lyric meditation to entwine, twist, and twin the physical and spiritual consequences of sisterhood. Through a series of investigations and experiments, the text transforms initial factual fragments into the bodily material of the (heard and unheard) language of intimates. "Our crime is she began to grow in my skin," writes Rexilius, "A con artist. A mammal. A flower at the back of my skull."

To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation

Literature & Fiction

Rexilius, Andrea

Poetry

Rescue Press

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "I am a girl, and what does it feel like to be a girl. It feels like a hand over your mouth. A hand over your mouth and on your thighs. Some say it is the sound of a rabbit before it is caught. It is the sound of the sky before it comes crashing down."

New Organism: Essais

Letter Machine Editions

Poetry. Women's Studies. Andrea Rexilius' SISTER URN is a requiem both intimate and broad in scale, memorializing the life of a sister cut short and the unraveling aftereffects of the anthropocene, "difficult to pin down in objects, and therefore unnamable." Here, poetry is an act not only of holding space for grief but also for restitching what has split or frayed into a raw-edged resolution: "When the future is missing, I will reside in the letter I. I will abide by it, even if it topples over." "Andrea Rexilius' brilliant SISTER URN presses us against the afterlife, and, in radiant revelations, achieves, as if in living diorama, the body as an epistle of love." --J. Michael Martinez. "Rexilius leads us into that hemisphere long darkened by despair while holding the small illuminations of this music: 'We blank our voices / going forward into the night. Uvula as lantern.''--Carolina Ebeid

Sister Urn

Sidebrow Books

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To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation

New Organism: Essais

Sister Urn