Student Aaron Diehl reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal I knew nothing about Bhanu Kapil or her book Humanimal before sitting down with it a few days before her scheduled BathHouse event. Being the busy college student I am, my initial reaction after checking it out from the library was relief…
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Brandon Gorley review Bhanu Kapil
Student Brandon Gorley reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s BathHouse reading: I greatly enjoyed the Bhanu Kapil reading. I had read Humanimal beforehand (it was assigned in class), but I didn’t really connect with the text. My main problem is that it seemed very distant and unemotional. Certainly, the imaginary, “humanimal” sections were emotional, but I couldn’t…
Karsten Kelsey reviews Bhanu Kapil
Karsten Kelsey reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: Liquid colors, fluid language, swirling imagery. Everything about Bhanu Kapil and her poetic work, Humanimal, brings to mind the image of water. I can only relate her piece to being swept along on your back in a gentle river, ears underwater and exposed to a world…
Lindsay Anderson reviews Bhanu Kapil
EMU student Lindsay Anderson reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal World Listening to Bhanu Kapil read from Humanimal made me feel like an uninvited eavesdropper. Despite her visible nervousness at the public forum of the reading, there was an unmistakable intimacy apparent between Kapil and her work, a familiarity that left me…
Dan Hall reviews Bhanu Kapil
Another reaction to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading, this time from student Dan Hall: Bhanu Kapil’s reading of Humanimal When I first encountered Bhanu Kapil in the Carillon Room of Halle Library, she was light and soft. She spoke with a flowing and eloquent voice like that of Mary Poppins. She laughed and made jokes about…
Paul Bone reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Paul Bone offers his reaction to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: Bhanu’s Project For Future Children Humanimal is probably a text that everybody reads differently, considering the interesting subject matter and multiple narratives in the story. This makes it interesting to hear the author of the book, Bhanu Kapil, read it out loud, because…
BathHouse Event: Rodrigo Toscano, Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.
The next BathHouse Reading will be Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater featuring Rodrigo Toscano with EMU student performers on Monday, November 9, 6:30 p.m. at the Dreamland Theater (26 North Washington Street Ypsilanti; 734-657-2337). This event is free and open to the public. Rodrigo Toscano’s latest book is Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books; a National Poetry…
Alex Haber reviews Bhanu Kapil
Another reaction to Bhanu Kapil’s BathHouse reading, this time from student Alex Haber: On the subject of writing, Bhanu Kapil is charmingly enthusiastic, often overflowing with personal anecdotes, both humorous and hauntingly symbolic. She speaks of her own work with a confident tone, but in an ever-conscious mindset, making spontaneous insights seem like long-labored conclusions. Similarly,…
Brad Wozniak reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Brad Wozniak reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading at EMU: The Michigan starfish is a bright red thing that I have never seen before. Though I had noticed them for the better part of my twenty-two years, I never have seen a leaf as a starfish. This is the ability that language has…
Melisa Carnacchi reviews Bhanu Kapil
Student Melisa Carnacchi reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading at EMU: I will admit that while reading Humanimal, I was confused and slightly disturbed. Kapil’s diction and attention to grotesque detail did not always leave me with the most uplifting images. Thus, while reading to myself, I found my mind wandering, and my appetite…