We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place

One could certainly say that Kelly Webers debut collection, We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place, depicts a non-binary experience that does not receive nearly enough representation in the literary landscape. While such an assertion would be factual, this kind of reading would underestimate Webers poetic gifts and the full range of the philosophical implications for her work. Weber writes, What pulls a woman like me / out here alone, they want to know? As she teases out possible answers to this question, Weber revealswith remarkable lyricism and gracethe danger, richness, and multiplicity housed within solitary experience and within the individual subject. Adriana Cavererro, the famed scholar of vocal expression, once noted that thought itself is a collective endeavor, made possible by a shared cultural imagination. Weber reveals self as world, self as community in poems that situate an inherited tradition in conversation with postmodern innovation and undertheorized, urgently important concepts of identity. This is an unforgettable first book. See more