intersex-front-cover“A book of time and because of it: ‘Time stopped queerly.’ Not a book but an essay: a ‘vibration…along lines.’ Or the book as ‘gesture,’ intervening with: the other possible, ‘faintly disembodied’ mid-line ‘trajectories.’ Aaron Apps’ Intersex is all feral prominence: a physical archive of the ‘strange knot.’ Thus: necessarily vulnerable, brave and excessive. Book as trait. Book as biology without end: modified, pulsing, visible, measured, folded then folded again: an ‘animal self.’ I felt this book in the middle of my own body. Reading, your own organs stir. In this way, Apps indicates the ‘creature’ that you are too. Where do you ‘reside’? Where do you ‘collect’? Like the best kind of memoir, Apps brings a reader close to an experience of life that is both ‘unattainable’ and attentive to ‘what will emerge from things.’ In doing so, he has written a book that bursts from its very frame.”

—Bhanu Kapil, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Read more about Intersex (Tarpaulin Sky Press, forthcoming, April 2015)