mars2k 's review for:

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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“To chart these romances would be to name constellations among stars that will not stay still.”

I like this book a lot. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through does a great job of blurring the lines between poetry, memoir, and essay. It’s sometimes dark but never grim, and it embodies a sincere and wistful spirit as Fleischmann contemplates their relationship with queerness, sexuality, gender, politics, and art.

I was expecting Félix González-Torres and his works to play a bigger role – he crops up now and then but it wouldn’t take much restructuring to remove him from the book entirely. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; I only bring this up to say that the blurb is a little misleading. This book is many things but it isn’t an art critique.

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through is an interesting little book. I’ll probably revisit it at some point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, Dysphoria