Pilot Press Disquiet Drive.

by Hesse K.

One night a satellite falls out of the sky and splits a girl in half. Disquiet Drive is a book scraped together from the shorn parts of a person who may no longer exist. Beginning with an admission that language and embodiment seem indistinguishable, yet refusing to claim a singular voice, the texts in this collection lurch between the fiery crucible of a transition and the weird jaggedness of our own continuity; between inverted memoir and prose-poetry; the raw, irrepressible lyric and the essay as an exercise in the art of digging-one’s-heels-in. Disquiet Drive is about undoing the words we’re handed so that language can survive, and undoing the body so that it can find a way to live.

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

Reviews

[Adrianne Ackroyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really a lovely read- the two long essays in the book were gorgeous and I will be thinking about them for a while.

[Jak Merriman · Rating 5 out of 5]

like an elated body that also happens to be limp. like sex with wires for arms, or a ghostly white mountain range. and the mountains have these strange apertures, body-shaped, red, androgyne. like coming home and falling through the floor, never to be seen again. like everything that intrigues me, or ‘me’.