Echolocation
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In her provocatively innovative and innovatively provocative poetry collection, Echolocation, Evelyn Reilly sounds out a techno-saturated world that perhaps we already occupy. She refuses easy answers or evaluations: animals are processed into food in brutal ways and the boundaries of person- and species-hood are expanded and exploded, while new forms of life and collectivity emerge. Bodies, of organism and of text, are ever-shifting, accumulating new modes of signification and habitation. The text becomes a habitat. Ever resourceful, Reilly interrogates " the natural" without discarding it. Instead, she ushers in an contemporary poetics that refuses hierarchical differentiation between the ecological and the technological; neither is demon or savior.
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Evelyn Reilly is a New York-based poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include, Styrofoam, Apocalypso, and >, published by Roof Books. Having Broken, Are was recently published by BlazeVOX. Styrofoam is widely read and written about as an example of ecopoetics and avant-garde experimentation. Reilly has been a writer and exhibit developer for numerous museums, including the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Museum of Jewish History and Tolerance Center (Moscow), the United States Peace Institute (Washington, D.C.), and the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington). Her most recent museum work was for the Obama Presidential Center. Reilly is also a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC. Reilly lives in New York City and the Hudson River Valley.