Kathrada, the phantasmal, transhuman poet-narrator of Will Alexander's novella, Alien Weaving, spins a vertiginous account of literature as the highest imaginative practice.

"…At once a meditation on what it means to be a poet in dialogue with other poets (Vallejo, Lispector, Guillén, Varela), what it means to be an exile, what it means to be “part of the indefinable and part of the earth,” and what it means to confront the ways in which the “broken animal body became law.” Alien Weaving is written in a voice that has “inculcated singularity to such an extent that comparisons with the collective graph cease to adhere as an option.” I am grateful for these “letters that form from the ash of oblivion” which lead to an unutterable wow, a feeling that comes from knowing that the universe is altered and improved by the “incalculable energy” of this language."
—Daniel Borzutzky, author of In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy