Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System by Kate Ireland Danez Smith Her language assaults

Her language assaults

critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind'

this is poetry that is made for the human voice

of Jehova's witnesses

a kaleidoscope of shifting perspectives presenting the character Agatha

Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System by Kate Ireland Danez Smith Her language assaultsAdaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System is a lovingly disordered field guide for surviving a world that keeps turning up the brightness. Disguised in the respectable badge of a diagnostic title, this is in contrast a poetic log of being too sensitive in a society built for the perpetually unbothered. From violent mornings to dreich late nights, Kate sifts through bedrooms, public transport, supermarkets, her Grans house, the surveillance era