Cyborg Detective

"Sassy, funny and justifiably bitter, Jillian Weise sets ableist America – and America’s literary subcultures – straight about a number of things in her third collection, in which every line snaps and many of them sting. “It’s the same poem / y’all been writing in your centuries. Someone / gets sad, buys a house, has children, politics / and little birdies. Throw some ableism / in and publish it,” Weise, an amputee, self-identified “cyborg” and disability activist, writes in one of many poems addressed to her poetic peers, whom she takes to task. If all the poetry shop talk seems like too much inside baseball, remember that poetry is always a metaphor for everything else."