Lizard - 9780986264054

In Lizard, Rosenthal explores the creaturely membranes that lie between the knownsocial and the unknownsocial. When racified nations, nationified peoples, and “ selfevident” identities of every make threaten to squash the efflorescence of Life’ s lusty reach toward the stars, Lizard is born and scampers about. But Rosenthal’ s sense of Fable eschews morals and maxims in favor of claiming a terrain from which the ParaHuman can come into being. Slowly, tentatively, and then brashly, Lizard begins to obverse the world (while keenly observed herself). The resulting Kabbalistic strokes are as patently hilarious as they are intelligently perplexing. This is bone instructive poetry. I love it. — Rodrigo Toscano