re: evolution, another book from Les Figues Press, did not immediately hit me the way that Voice of Ice, Voix de Glace did, but that does not make itless of a work.

The work is divided up in small sections – an “introduction,” 48 “chapters,” a “denouement,” “the end,” and finally a section that mimics (but is not) end notes entitled “research paper.”

The dominant tool is one of deconstructing language, science, and culture. re: evolution also contains more than a whiff of feminism – with the deconstruction seemingly put to the task avoiding redcuctivism by objectification or fetishism. Unfortunately, it also led to the relative absence of any eroticism. Not strictly sexual, but the sense the writer “desires” the words, “desires” the poetry s/he is writing is not there – not for me anyway. But am I just inflicting/projecting my own gendered sexuality onto the work?