The Halo-Halo Review is pleased to interview authors in the
aftermath of a book’s release. This issue’s featured writers include Kimberly
Alidio:
What is your most recent
book?
after projects the resound (Black Radish Books, 2016)
When was it released?
Monday, August 29, 2016
What has been the
response?
Bodies in the same room. Effie Street with Joshua Jennifer
Espinoza; Malvern with Robyn Collado and kt shorb; Resistencia with Lilia
Rosas; Bolm Studios Courtyard with Dalton Day, Felix Morgan, Chessy Normile,
Ray Shea and Jesus Valles; Butterfly Bar with Fernando Flores, Megan Kaminski
and John Pluecker; Mags with Eileen Tabios, Brittany Billmeyer-Finn and Jesse
Nissim; Arts Estuary with Marthe Reed and Megan Kaminski; UC-Riverside with
Fred Moten’s students, (playing) The Stooges and Hanni El-Khatib; and Red
Emma’s with Jesse Nissim and Brenda Serpick (see below)
Always (before, during and after): email intimacies.
A dream of reading aloud with and to another person across a
kitchen table.
What has surprised you
about the response?
Finding the book in someone’s living room during brunch.
My colleague reading the school library’s copy at his desk, a
few feet from mine. My squirming in his sightline adding to his reading
enjoyment. I hate you, Charles.
Coming home to Baltimore (see below). Realness and dreaming.
Visceral understanding and acceptance balancing out the rooms in which I felt
again what it feels like to be a disturbance.
Tell me something about
the book that may not be obvious or known.
I try to avoid saying the title aloud. The first two title
words trade off on acting as the subject of the phrase. So it’s both AFter PROjects [pause] the reSOUND and AFter proJECTS the reSOUND.
What are you working on
now?
I'm
writing a monster manuscript on dancers, infidelity, emotional numbness,
nausea, and alien landscapes shifting and reconstituting the alien body. It
seems to want to be an epic in Renee Gladman-like prose blocks. It asks: what
book can be written now, after a year of anguish and possibility?
*****
Kimberly
Alidio wrote After projects the resound
(Black Radish, 2016) and solitude being
alien (dancing girl press, 2013). She is the inaugural artist-in-residence
at the Center for Art and Thought and a poetry fellow of Kundiman and VONA. She
received fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program and the
University of Illinois’s Asian American Studies Program, as well as a doctorate
in modern American history from the University of Michigan. A tenure-track
dropout and high-school teacher, she hails from Baltimore and lives in East
Austin, Texas.
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