We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us

We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us marks a significant formal shift for award-winning poet Roxanna Bennett, away from the recombinant sonnets that she employed so deftly over three volumes. She reformulates disability poetics in this new collection by infusing concepts of collage, enacting the improvised experience of disabled persons who use whatever comes to hand in order to negotiate the inaccessibly-constructed world. Though her formal strategies have changed, Bennett's voice remains as unique and as powerful as ever.

"Bennett’s compositional approach evolves from composing a poem with one’s own material, to being able to discern where the poem might already exist, within that same material. The pastiche provides Bennett a way to think through their improvisations to achieve something entirely fresh." -  Rob Mclennan