A Reaction to Someone Coming In

Wendy Lotterman

'Wendy Lotterman is a scientist of feeling, here presenting discoveries with surgical precision. If it's true that "no good thing can be saved from a three-legged relay with the bad," then what forms the third leg? Maybe it's these cool, discomfiting lines, which invent a canny language for a "weird, denuded universe" where "the event postdates the mood it turned into." The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like an appendectomy is intimate, only your ex and your mom are watching, which definitely makes it better, even exquisite.' – Kay Gabriel