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Winner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Award, Anthony Borruso’s Splice melds contemporary pop culture with enduring questions about mortality and the limits of language. This dynamic, darkly humorous montage of identity, chronic illness, and artistic homage examines the concept of selfhood through the film camera’s lens. Navigating a disorienting neurological condition that causes thoughts to “get stopped up / like an autumn gutter,” the speaker shapeshifts into a multitude of voices while making muses of cinematic icons. Splice ultimately explores our constant cycles of imitation and reinvention, demonstrating how far-flung influences and lexical collisions feed the poetic mind.