Active Reception

by Noah Ross

Active Reception is a book of bottoming lovers, the world around us, and a history of letters, that thinks through a queer mode of writing from the bottom, a kind of coalition based politics of receptivity and expansion that is open to the world around us, its myriad life forms, its systemic oppressions, its hidden ghosts.

Genres: Poetry, Queer

88 pages, Paperback

First published March 23, 2021

Reviews

[Aaron]

A concrete poetics of bottoming was not on my bingo card but I'm glad it exists.

[Jason Ly]

this book is quite unique in its formatting visually and subject matter wise (bottoming mostly). The writing itself is very freeform and doesn't use periods which can get annoying especially towards the middle, at worst it feels like someone describing a dream they had for which you have no frame of reference, I didn't dislike it entirely though and found it interesting in many parts, Noah's use of line breaks, spacing and language can be very surprising and the third part really brings everything together, I also appreciate the foray into concrete poetry and all the visual play going on in this book.

[Lars Meijer]

‘the ritual of production as a labor there is no right to a rectum has no straightness’

[Merel Nijhuis]

2,5*