Bhanu Kapil Reading

The Bhanu Kapil reading was mildly enjoyable for me. She started things off with a somewhat unusual dialogue about Michigan,, referring to it as a "dark state". I found this somewhat intriguing, and wondered exactly what she meant. She also showed us a Michigan Starfish, or a leaf as it is more commonly known.

After this brief introduction she began to read from her book titled Humanimals. As she prepared to read my mind tensed in preparation for nonsensical onslaught it would soon face. However, I eventually relaxed as I realized that Bhanu's unique "style", was much less caustic to the story in humanimals. The context of Humanimals made the style appropriate, and somewhat enjoyable, much to the contrary of Incubation. Incubation seemed like a narrative gone horribly awry, but Humanimals the style actually worked for. The vignettes of her Father's childhood actually seemed to illustrate the idea of humans on the fringes of society, as somewhat animal like. The descriptions of all the injuries he endured, reinforced this idea. These coupled with the narrative of the girl seemed to tie together, and enhanced my enjoyment, instead of subtracting from it. Her use of the color red also made an appearance almost to the point of redundancy.