Soft Switch

“Jesse Rice-Evans’ Soft Switch is a book about the body. Rice-Evans writes, “My body: the only thing I can talk about with any assurance.” And yet even with that assurance there are questions. The body is a form. How does one fill that form with content? How does one discuss that? What is this form for? What’s it worth? These poems explore the body and its experiences due to the shape it takes on as associated with gender. These pieces are as playful as they are complex. They grow (up) as the body grows and one learns to be/come the body they inhabit.” –Kenyatta JP Garcia, poet and author of Slow Living