Divya Victor's Cicadas in the Mouth Leslie Scalapino Lecture

Divya Victor's Cicadas in the Mouth Leslie Scalapino Lecture:

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“My tongue is read in public by strangers who run their hands over-it as if it were a subway map.This is the mouth of the poet, in other words. In other words: This is the published mouth. I allow these hands to search inside my mouth — thrum at my uvula, prod at my molars, press against the spongy fungiform — an oral tourism of what you, my dear listeners, are making of my speech. My throat is a veritable transit lounge — the tongue is unheimlich, uncanny, unhomely — in transit.”