Bhanu Kapil Readings

When I attended Bhanu Kapil's reading event i first thought it was going to be boring to listen to her read out loud. It wasn't bad at all! She read some of her readings out of the book called humanimal with a confident tone to the audience. The book was about two girls found living with wolves in the Bengal Jungle. Her voice was clear and her readings were rather detailed and vivid. Her readings contained imagery because i could see what she was talking about in my head very clearly.

She used a lot of colors in her readings and red came up more frequently, maybe it stood for blood since there was a lot of blood involved. As for the other colors she was describing the jungle. Also i noticed a lot of horrific language describing certain situations the girls went through. For example " the next day i woke up to a raw throat, the cook gave me some salt and warm water. I waited until she was gone then i bit it, I bit my own arm and i ate it. Here is my belly frosted with meat, hear are my eyes bubbling in a tin. This was made me cringe because the words are so descriptive i could see it in my mind when Kapil read this part out loud. I love how she uses concrete detail and uses her imagery. Overall i enjoyed attending this event.