ABSTRACT
This poem, Minnows, is by Sabrina Benaim and is shared in Benaim’s anthology Depression and Other Magic Tricks (2017) published by Button Poetry. In thinking bodying post-qualitative research in the fissures of humanism, alongside Frost's notion of biocultural creatures and Mol's body-as-composite, Benaim offers into concoction of provocations the contention that bodies flee the boundaries the people set for them. Benaim writes also of turning her heart into a mausoleum and etching into its flesh the traces of minnows that have died. Benaim speaks too of her stomach minnows being hungry, of starving in the face of missing something – a relation, a touch, a nourishment. Ideas, like bodying postqualitative data, have a life, a timeline, a temporal rhythm to them. That a response might differ by context makes sense, as bodies differ by context as do lives, relations, and precarities.
