Reviews

Therə is a Case that I Am by torrin a. greathouse

scrow1022's review

5.0

I am caught by the architecture of some of these, the borrowing from other types of writing (scientific, journalistic). And phrasing that feels "just so".

jenniechantal's review

4.0

These are some FIERCE poems!

suddenflamingword's review

4.0

3.5 rounded up, probably. This chapbook runs on raw energy, absolutely opposed to reduction, fueled by biting irony. Posing a logician's symbols against the trans experience, invoking comedic stractures to frustrate laughter (most obvious in this performance of "Trans Joke: A Found Poem"), Greathouse does genuinely invoke an architectural approach just as Simon suggests. But it's the architecture of "The Tokyo Toilet Project" - conspicuous but never without privacy, constantly in tension with its assumed principles.