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Indictus | Natalie Eilbert

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Poetry. Women's Studies. INDICTUS re-imagines various creation myths to bear the invisible and unsaid assaults of women. In doing so, it subverts notions of patriarchal power into a genre that can be demolished and set again. INDICTUS is a Latin word, from which other words like "indict" and "indicate" are born. It translates literally as "to write the unsaid." There is an effort in this book to create the supernatural through the utterance of violence, because jurisdiction fails in real time. That sexual assault can so easily become a science fiction when power is rearranged to serve the victim speaks to the abject lack of control within victims to ever be redeemed. Crimes resolve to misdemeanors. In a world without my abusers, how can I soon become myself? Combining the mythological and autobiographical, this book attempts to indict us, so that the wounded might one day be free.

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Indictus | Natalie Eilbert

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This book kind of fucked me up. It‘s a book that takes an act (or, really, several acts) of violence, and embodies it in a way that I can‘t fully articulate. The language itself is often violent, or perhaps violated. It is unsettling, and it is amazing.

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Indictus | Natalie Eilbert

Reading this book—I‘m about halfway through it—is for sure an experience, but it‘s one I can‘t seem to articulate and one I don‘t know if I understand. The poems here are like fire, and I could tell you a word like “burn” but that doesn‘t explain the sensation unless you already know what it signifies. This is like that.

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