In Coit, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English-language translation of QuZbZcoise poet Chantal Neveu’s fourth book invites the reader to collaborate in the making of both texts and spaces. Here, Co*t refers not only to coitus but to the act of moving in unison. Conceptual and intimate, Co*t is a consensual experiment that exceeds the form of the book.

A minimalist text with a myriad of openings, this English-language introduction to the writing of QuZbZcoise poet Chantal Neveu is a meticulously staged language event. In Coit, comingling strands of text bring proximity and adjacency into relief as sites of articulation. A spectacular intervention in a carefully constructed conceptual field. - Kate Eichhorn