Cyborg Detective

Cyborg Detective delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. In her latest poetry collection, Jillian Weise investigates and challenges the ways that nondisabled writers represent disability in their work. From an acerbic letter calling out William Carlos Williams’s medical conviction that “poetry heals” to a reverse-perspective biohack of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” to a stark chronicle of violence against “disabled women” in international headlines, no metaphor for “blind moon” or “deaf skies” goes unquestioned. Part invective, part love poem, Cyborg Detective holds a magnifying glass to the fetishization and marginalization of disabled people, in particular women, while claiming space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants to survive.