Weise, Jillian
September 3, 2019
Cyborg Detective (American Poets Continuum). Rochester, New York: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. Print.
In her third collection of poems, Jillian Weise delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. These poems investigate and challenge the ways that non-disabled writers have appropriated disabled bodies, from calling out William Carlos Williams to biohacking Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” to chronicling the ongoing headlines of violence against disabled women.