"It's taken a lot of resistance, that I want to leave my gender and my sex life uninscribed—that it took me years to consider the fact that I did not have to name my gender or sexuality at all"
4 stars
I had a weird-for-me experience of really enjoying this book while having several critical feelings about the writing. I think because it's experimental and meandering, with verse sections and fragmentation, and I wanted them to push on those aspects harder. Many beautiful/dirty images and thoughts and moments and I would recommend it. Maybe too obvious a comparison but I found it interesting to read this after having read Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. Both situate a gender/sex narrative amidst cultural artifacts—for Paul, mostly 80s and 90s alt-pop music, and for Time, Felix Gonzales-Torres's and Roni Horn's sculptures—and the formal outcome of each book seems to turn on (or at least relate to) those choices.
