All rights reserved. This work may be used, with this header included, for noncommercial purposes within a subscribed institution . No copies of this work may be distributed electronically outside of the subscribed institution, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the JHU Press . This consumption, this compulsory appearance, forces the siren to give herself up and be swallowed. But the siren cannot drown.
Dance is the art that most closely approximates it.
This site is the pure taking place of the event that the poet must indicate in every spectacle. Her dancing-writing traces the outline of a body that can never become a body.