![]() ![]() I stowed bulimia away in a bursting closet of my person and so the concentrated and sometimes explosive sections and line breaks of “Ox Hunger” felt like an honest parallel of that behavior.ĭisordered eating itself has felt like such a compartmentalized, secretive difficulty. I believe we looked closely at both the variances and fragmentedness of The Glass Essay by Anne Carson as well as a longer piece in Sally Wen Mao’s collection Oculus. Taking this idea one more step: the liminal space isn’t just the “in-between” space instead, it becomes its own entity (due to lack of confinement).Īimee Seu: Aw Aja, thank you for such careful looking! I received a lot of help with “Ox Hunger” during my time at the University of Virginia working with the marvelously intuitive and inventive poet Lisa Russ Spaar as well as Queen Rita Dove. Hence, we also get the concept that hybrid creations are the liminal space between two (strict) genres, in this case, poetry and the essay. I was thinking too: providing the definition of “Ox Hunger” recontextualizes defining terms as neither academic nor literary, but somewhere in the liminal. How did you decide on this poem’s form? Perhaps we can talk about its numbered sections and the variations of line and stanza length. For instance, essays are often viewed as the sole “informative” genre, limiting knowledge-sharing in other forms (like poetics). I believe that hybridity has infinite power because it defies the strict ideas and misconceptions of genre. Germaine: Aimee, the hybridity inherent in “Ox Hunger Essay” is stunning. Here is an excerpt from Aimee’s stunning poem, “Ox Hunger Essay”:Īja St. Germaine then reads “Ode to Pomegranates” from her collection. In this blunt-chic edition of Sticky Fingers, Aimee Seu discusses literary hybridity, maternal influences, and exuberant fashion with Honey intern Aja St. Donned in the queerest and most magnificently tacky fur coat, Seu exposes the soft underbelly of guttural exultation and sorrow. ![]() Aimee Seu’s debut collection, Velvet Hounds, winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize, pairs brilliant and lavish hybridity-in both content and form-with an unguarded semi-autobiographical examination of matrilineage and disordered eating, queer eroticism and luxury, and liminally, remnants of the tumultuous expansion of self. ![]()
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