Vanessa Roveto Book order

Vanessa Roveto's debut collection, Bodys, is a striking exploration of the complex question: What does it mean to be "a person"? This hybrid work blends poetry and prose, post-human analysis and humor, spiritual autobiography and dark satire. Roveto articulates "a most complicated vocabulary of feeling-your-feelings," delving into forbidden states while questioning its own desires. Bodys serves as a high-risk, low-tech radiology of identity, revealing overlaps in the moral and disgust centers of the mind. The sentences propel forward with disjunctive energy, employing wordplay and shifting pronouns with abandon. Despite its postmodern bravado and irreverence, the collection remains deeply engaged with the challenge of a human speaker addressing another, often colliding with its own otherness. This theme of articulation as disarticulation echoes the great Renaissance sonnet sequences, from which Bodys draws inspiration. The collection poses profound questions about identity: Is it a dysfunction in the body's ability to replicate? A dysmorphic perception of reality? A dystopian vision where boundaries between selves blur amidst commerce and technology? Roveto captures this complexity, inviting readers to ponder the relationship between a body and nobody, encapsulating the essence of her inquiry in the phrase, "It was the beautiful question."