THOU

Aisha Sasha John

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Pages

176

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Book*hug Press

About

In THOU, Aisha Sasha John knows the day, biblically. What if time itself was an object of desire? And, the book was a theatre for that? Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time. Which is why she discipled in it. For three-years. Also for three-months. Also for three-months at 33. Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time and discipled in time, moving it across her body, watching it, um, course the day. She slowed it down and thought along it, she cut it up. She slowed it down and thunk along it and sped it up. She cut it up and spaced it out and rhythmed it down and laid it flat and looked at it hard. Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time. She did it. She did time. It was gross and funny and it was hard and it was good. The result is/was, THOU.

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"Aisha Sasha John's THOU re-plays that archaic pronoun as a constantly present movement and rhythm of attention: moments. These lines of poetry "shake a little" as the "I" narrates and choreographs a monologue of the self in motion; each page is the dance floor and John's words break through the "I-as-you" with anticipation and grace."

Fred Wah

"THOU is physical, fearless in its vulnerabilities, a sensing amid thought's most succulent folds. THOU is a choreography of irresolute bodies, the insistent shifting of their positions. Aisha Sasha John is a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy."

Michael Nardone

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