Interlocutor Goddess

"In this processual, becoming shimmer of a text, Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being. Her gorgeous grammars—at once demanding and disarming—are  the result of a language-making in the process of exceeding itself: ‘where blooms the common factor of [her] breaths.’"—aracelis girmay, author of the black maria 

"Self-expression ought to be auto-apocalyptic but people tend to hold back, as if they think they’re standing still or can afford to. Elsewhere, as mediate bloom, having gathered enough to give way more away, Jasmine Reid asks, who do you think you’re talking to? You can’t ask until you’ve had to sing an answer. Because it bears this divine imperative, Interlocutor Goddess is a beautifully open chance."—Fred Moten, author of All That Beauty

"Interlocutor Goddess is a restless sensuality with that tongue in your mouth. Jasmine Reid coaxes every line to work, to wend, and sometimes to wound in her kaleidoscopic debut. Here collides the chain gang’s ‘Hah!’ with a ‘sticky & pretty’ hyme. And that’s two sec-tions from a lyric essay rattling with specters. And after that? She writes, ‘my head a black planet.’ Indeed, y’all. Reading Reid is to ready yourself for staying dazzled and addled stanza after stanza then coming to find out you weren’t ready. It’s OK: Interlocutor Goddess came to talk (and take) you through it. I’ll see you ’cross the other side." —Douglas Kearney, author of Sho