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A review by worm_food
C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor
4.5
Here's a copy of the notes I wrote while reading this in the back of the book:
Vitrine, snow globe, museum display, all of them are ways to worship, yes, but they are missing the point. The only way to worship is by knowing, feeling, touching, sweating , smudging, making dirty to touchlessly admire from afar is to take the body out of it, and without a body, how are you gonna attend butch church? Butch church being of course the dyke smoking area.
Relistening to the magnus archives seasons 2/3 while reading this was interesting. The spiral, fear of madness, gaslighting, your mind is lying to you. Doors that weren't there, doors that lead to nowhere, deliberately obscuring and confusing. A girl who isn't a girl who is a boy who is a girl who isn't, at all. Who is it, in the end?
I think the two above little paragraphs for me capture the themes I found most compelling quite well. What about a Venn diagram of TMA enjoyers and Joelle Taylor fans? Hello? HELLOOOO is this thing on 🎤
Anyway I enjoyed this greatly, I found some of the themes to be... Repetitive isn't the right word, it's more to do w their lack of I guess evolution throughout the collection. But I'm nitpicking, it's not like I could do this better or more evocatively. I wish the audience was trusted more! But it might just be me. Anyway. It's only a tiny thing about a collection that was otherwise incredibly evocative n beautiful because of how it was written.
mirrors looking for the face
within the face looking
for the exit. maybe
you think. maybe. a door
will open in my cheek &
inside will be a room
filled with everyone
I love. we will drink
water. there will be
food.
we will all know
what hands are for
Vitrine, snow globe, museum display, all of them are ways to worship, yes, but they are missing the point. The only way to worship is by knowing, feeling, touching, sweating , smudging, making dirty to touchlessly admire from afar is to take the body out of it, and without a body, how are you gonna attend butch church? Butch church being of course the dyke smoking area.
Relistening to the magnus archives seasons 2/3 while reading this was interesting. The spiral, fear of madness, gaslighting, your mind is lying to you. Doors that weren't there, doors that lead to nowhere, deliberately obscuring and confusing. A girl who isn't a girl who is a boy who is a girl who isn't, at all. Who is it, in the end?
I think the two above little paragraphs for me capture the themes I found most compelling quite well. What about a Venn diagram of TMA enjoyers and Joelle Taylor fans? Hello? HELLOOOO is this thing on 🎤
Anyway I enjoyed this greatly, I found some of the themes to be... Repetitive isn't the right word, it's more to do w their lack of I guess evolution throughout the collection. But I'm nitpicking, it's not like I could do this better or more evocatively. I wish the audience was trusted more! But it might just be me. Anyway. It's only a tiny thing about a collection that was otherwise incredibly evocative n beautiful because of how it was written.
mirrors looking for the face
within the face looking
for the exit. maybe
you think. maybe. a door
will open in my cheek &
inside will be a room
filled with everyone
I love. we will drink
water. there will be
food.
we will all know
what hands are for