Bhanu Kapil - Handwritten Preface to Reverse the Book

   1 Reverse the book in duration. What does that mean? I am writing to you. These notes now when it’s too late.
   2 If the cyborg you read about in bookstores is an immigrant from Mexico crossing into the U.S. beneath a floodlit court, then mine is a Punjabi-British hitchhiker on a JI visa. This is tunneling as seen from a satellite—sort of concave warp in the dirt of the line.
   3 She lives in a house with others, including animals, creating individual spaces of companionship and ardor. What h...