Humaning Jen Elcheson and the past thoughts of

and the past thoughts of the gods appear to us as necessity

or constrain

such as inter-agency work

the birth of independent thinking came only with our present state of consciousness - through becoming aware of the individual self

Chinese philosophy and culture

Humaning Jen Elcheson and the past thoughts ofIn her striking debut, Laurie Ogden wrestles with what it means to define ourselves as human. From the seeming infinity of matryoshka dolls to Maud Wagner and Latrice Royale, Humaning moves through a storm of conflicting notions of womanhood, the body, and difference. Sometimes open and playful, sometimes dark and surreal, the poems offer up self authorship and anthropomorphism as tools for transformation in the aftermath of trauma, to reset the roots