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In this impressive and formally versatile debut, Johnson places the lyric in dialogue with a host of nonpoetic forms, among them diagrams, numbered lists, and maps. Johnson calls attention to his own agency in inhabiting language, "In this moment I realize I have a level of control", framing his practice as a poetics of intervention. The work is filled with self-aware poems like this one, which reflect on their own philosophical underpinnings, and Johnson's formal experimentation compliments the poems, involving and implicating the reader in their critique of linguistic hierarchies. [Extracted from the article]