Category: BathHouse

Student Leto Rankine reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading:   A Way to Talk and to Write Bhanu Kapil has a very nice voice. It is the kind of British accent that doesn’t make her sound smarter (not that she didn’t seem smarter) but instead lent a rhythm to the reading of Humanimal and…

Student Stacy Lorne reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: On Tuesday, November 3rd I attended a reading of Humanimal-A Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil. One of the most fascinating things I took from this reading/discussion was how Kapil looks at writing and literature. Kapil said that writing finds her. She even wrote…

Student Timothy Mies reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading: I arrived early to Bhanu Kapil’s reading in Sponberg Theater at Eastern Michigan University. After an unexpectedly hectic day (one filled with obstacle after obstacle, springing out like moving targets at a police practice range – throwing me for loops and forcing me to shoot…

Another student reaction to Bhanu Kapil’s recent BathHouse reading, this time from Alyssa Eckles:  Bhanu Kapil’s reading of her book, Humanimal, was quite the experience, allowing her readers to hear the voices of Kamala and Amala, as well as of the woman searching for humanity within India. The parts of Humanimal Kapil read from in…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…