Bound

“Candice Wuehle’s BOUND is of presence and practice. It is of enactment and performance. It carries with it something that reminds me of how the forest is and how it comes to be. The intimacy of the play between something magnetic and inevitable and something you couldn’t prepare yourself to meet save keeping your porous body trembling. “NoOne was the only one witnessed me / act out this poem,” says Wuehle’s work, its voice emerging from all angles. This is poetry that is feminine and magic on its own luminous terms, via a shimmering of the literary politic and its unspoken / spoken laws. “Speak your odd offer or the spell / can’t craft. Lots of this NoOne wants.” Like Lisa Robertson or Selah Saterstrom, Wuehle reminds us that poetry and art don’t ask us for anything, but we could give ourselves to it. When we do, there we are, unfolding in the form, in the word, in the forest. I underline a line that says, “We’ve all been here a long time.” I find BOUND incredible and filled with a movement I’ll return to, that I’ll continue to watch / change.” -Carrie Lorig, author of The Pulp vs. The Throne