When I say that autistic writers are singularly embodied, I mean that they experience life from utterly unique corporeal perspectives and that they experience life in uniquely intense ways. Imane Boukaila, one of my newest and youngest students, brings her intensity onto the page with remarkable poetic instincts. At just thirteen years old, this non-speaking poet wields language with a lyrical density I’ve rarely seen. In this poem,
In the Quarantine Body
In the Quarantine Body
In the Quarantine Body
When I say that autistic writers are singularly embodied, I mean that they experience life from utterly unique corporeal perspectives and that they experience life in uniquely intense ways. Imane Boukaila, one of my newest and youngest students, brings her intensity onto the page with remarkable poetic instincts. At just thirteen years old, this non-speaking poet wields language with a lyrical density I’ve rarely seen. In this poem,