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Beginning with an epigraph from the 9/11 Commission Report, The Book of Interfering Bodies re-imagines the poet as bureaucrat, barbaric writer, and terrorist. In this book, poems that invoke the role of the writer in society alternate with apocalyptic prose pieces that recall Borges' "Library of Babel." In the process, Borzutzky creates a 21st century response to our most enduing twentieth century writers, from Beckett to Lispector.
The book is a world possessed by horribleness. It must be horrible to live in this world. We live in this world. We don't think we are horrible or feeling horribly or in a horrible mind or horrible to each other or destructive when we do horrible things to each other or make a habit of horrible looks and words and torture each other using horribly subtle tools for severe effect. A library with objects and stories and existences depicting reality. This describes a horrible world. Who lives here? We live in a world that is always being reality. The reality is we have this comfortable place where we're reading a book like this. And around the book we're reading there's a field growing into a meadow. It is the feeling of contemplative, maybe. And contemplative thinking needs to be horrible if it is going to be equal to the world that actually exists around it. Where are you living, United States? The reading habits that don't make revelatory a fact, but instead a fantasy are horrible. Borzutzky, then, makes fantasy horrible. Maybe someone would say the book is fantastical. But that would be a horrible reader for not seeing the obvious right in their face. The world the world the world is not all USA. That would be a reasonable argument that many people in the United States would resent. THAT'S HORRIBLE!!!
