Pringle

Simply can't let go of the habit....

I read Right New Biology and was bewildered. For one thing, I'd like some idea as to how her title and the actual content of her work fit together: the poems seem to deal in politics extensively, gathering and reworking political (American) rhetoric. Is the title an ironic comment on ways in which rhetoric could mask the possible reduction of the person to a cog in a political machine? Or does she perceive something possibly good or organic about current politics? Or is she attempting to document a change in contemporary politics and society? Why the word "Right" in her title? I sense fragmentation and alienation from the form of her work, the chopped up words, misspellings, and capitalization. Perhaps reflective of a pull between conflicting parts of current culture? Does the work offer any resolution to conflicts? Don't really know.