New York Times Magazine: I Am the Pace of My Body and Not Language

By Adam Wolfond Selected by Victoria Chang

Jan. 25, 2023

Adam Wolfond’s poem is mostly written in declaratives, giving it a sense of confidence. As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness and engage where evanescence arises from multiplicity, not uniformity and convention. (Note: The blue line does not correspond with the original text but has been recreated in collaboration with the editors of the magazine.) Selected by Victoria Chang

You can read the full poem here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/25/magazine/poem-adam-wolfond.html