Juice response part 1

In Juice, Renee Gladman shares the inviting narratives of well-thought out prose poems. These selected poems offer a narrative presence that seems coincidentally consistent in its expression of the contradictions that are prevalent in any seeking to know, or in any attempt to express the implications of that search upon a subject's experience and condition of being:

 “I knew it was me by the way my head felt: people find themselves in an idea and feel so specified by the idea that they are compelled to show it. Today all my ideas are liquid.”
                                (from "Proportion Surviving," 28)

Gladman is proficient at presenting incitingly direct speech in which her readers will recognize her striving for absolute truth as she describes her attempts to see and to release herself from formal limitations upon our beliefs about what is known or can ever hope to know. We feel her breaking away from conceptions we take for granted which establishes and coerces our sense of ourselves, the world around us, and how we interact as a whole.