Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth (Wave Books)Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life. In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent

aimed at destroying ugly shit

"To Lauren from Saul with all the best

decoloniality

and someone's torso

and society on its head—from the “brilliant

Growing up

Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live

and the son of the “bravest dog in all Mexico

The impeccable translation by Jennifer Rathbun helps make the entire volume not only accessible to the reader whose Spanish was limited

and reality

These sketches and stories are tersely haunting miniatures

Willis’s daring insights went beyond popular music