apparitions (nines) Instructions for the Lovers are captured in the music

are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention

at the edge of sleep

Nat Raha is a brilliant writer who upholds and generates incompleteness as both ethics and terrain

Robert Lax

apparitions (nines) Instructions for the Lovers are captured in the musicNat Raha Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha's apparitions (nines) in its "charred golden minidress," ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of "niners," a poetic form consisting of nine nine syllable lines, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone