Ampersand Organ

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a more-than-human lyric

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium where our neural pathways are “always shared, collective, and entangled.” In this “more-than-human lyric,” heidi andrea restrepo rhodes offers the ampersand, a mode of encounter that unfixes the reader. This form—a lyric prose poem beginning, midsentence, with an ampersand—accesses the intimacies of a life shaped by perpetual “and-ing.” These ampersands move by associative leap, synesthetic braid, and inter-species blur to revel in everything that makes us more than singular subjects. Neuroqueering poetics, rhodes writes toward deft and loving excess: spillage, echolalia, stutter, loop, and non-linear detour, refiguring what the lyric can be and what the body can do. These poems revolt against all forms of supremacy, inviting us into unexpected kinship with animal, mineral, vegetal, and heavenly bodies, each replete with its own languages, temporalities, histories, and worlds. Tending an everyday eroticism with its “heart at the sleeve, in the palm,” Ampersand Organ is unafraid to feel, to feel again, to feel feeling wherever it’s wildly felt. Here is a radiant, divergent, emergent field guide for how we might all shiver and shimmer into the and and and . . .

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-24
Mått139 x 215 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagMilkweed Editions
ISBN9781639551217

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heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a writer, artist, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting, Ephemeral, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary, and Wayward Creatures. They are a professor of feminist, queer, and disability studies; poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal; and editor/curator of the Anomalous Press column, Wild-Wired: Neuroqueer and Neurodivergent Poetics. A VONA Alum and recipient of the 2023 Creative Capital Award, they have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar Productions, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in unceded Acjachemen and Tongva lands, otherwise known as southern California.

"This is IRREPRESSIBLE, VORACIOUS, ASTOUNDING study. Can you feel me in the color? I am screaming and giving thanks for what this breaks. This urgent, embodied theory alive by our very entanglements, our flights into numerous sounds and shapes. And here, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is convening us into something radical and fierce. Citation as breath. Love, the erotic, blur as 'political-philosophical orientation.' With them I make an errant path, remembering the world, as I do here, in its real and gorgeous prisms exceeding the logics of conformance and the liberal state. Touched, I am so touched into life by these 'abundant divergences in thinking-feeling & bodying forth.'”—aracelis girmay, author of GREEN OF ALL HEADS"Ampersand Organ presents a replete and word-besotted pharmacopeia: vibrant, reaching, mycorrhizal as stars. At once a literary compendium, an astrological herbarium, a door-full of nervy graffiti and a hyperglossic grimoire, this book is a valiant resource and a case for care-contra-harm."—Joyelle McSweeney, author of The Necropastoral and Death Styles