Ampersand Organ

a more-than-human lyric

An Autostraddle Most Anticipated

Epic, kaleidoscopic and unapologetically crip: this is a book that sings the multitude in revolutionary new ways.People

A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.

Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium where our neural pathways are always shared, collective, and entangled. In this more-than-human lyric, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes offers the ampersand, a mode of encounter that unfixes the reader. This forma lyric prose poem beginning, midsentence, with an ampersandaccesses the intimacies of a life shaped by perpetual and-ing. These ampersands move by associative leap, synesthetic braid, and inter-species blur to revel in everything that makes us more than sin