Incubation by Bhanu Kapil
Originally published in America in 2006, and out of print for the last seven years, Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one thing nor another, this fragmentary-diaristic text journeys through the spaces in-between. Following protagonist Laloo—Cyborg, girl, mother, child, immigrant, settler—on a roadtrip through American landscapes, genre styles, and form, Incubation creates radical space for what is ‘monstrous’. In this document there is a celebration in the cobbling together of lives; global in scope, with an intimate focus on interior voice, this landmark text evidences the early innovations and talents of this T.S. Eliot prizewinning author.
Bhanu Kapil is the author of several full-length collections, most recently How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society selection. Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, earned a BA from Loughborough University and an MA in English Literature from SUNY Brockport. A Fellow of Churchill College (University of Cambridge), Kapil was elected in 2022 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Other recognitions include a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors (UK). For twenty years, Kapil taught seminars on performance, contemplative practice, poetry, anti-memoir, and hybrid forms at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. According to the poet Jenny Zhang, ‘Bhanu has a way of speaking to those of us who move through life feeling at once alien and recognizable, she speaks to us—the cyborgs, the aliens, the displaced, the feral, the untamed.’
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913513405 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913513408 |
| Title | Incubation |
| Author | Bhanu Kapil |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prototype Publishing Ltd. |
| Year published | 2023-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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