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In Coit, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English-language translation of QuŽbŽcoise poet Chantal Neveu's fourth book invites the reader to collaborate in the making of both texts and spaces. Here, Co•t refers not only to coitus but to the act of moving in unison. Conceptual and intimate, Co•t is a consensual experiment that exceeds the form of the book. A minimalist text with a myriad of openings, this English-language introduction to the writing of QuŽbŽcoise poet Chantal Neveu is a meticulously staged language event. In Coit, comingling strands of text bring proximity and adjacency into relief as sites of articulation. A spectacular intervention in a carefully constructed conceptual field.Ê- Kate Eichhorn