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a reflection that haunts this intense and powerful new book

This lateness

and then a new chain begins

The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers From From conjoined to the belly ofBhanu Kapil The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Bhanu Kapil's full length collection of prose poems, is arranged using a series of twelve repeated questions, such as: "How will you begin?" "Describe a morning you woke without fear" "Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother?" The manuscript is set in diverse placesPunjab, Central America, England, Arizonawhere the meditations on the "interrogations" considered by the narrator are