Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes: Poems

By: Imane Boukaila

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Synopsis: The newest entry in the Multiverse series, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes is a debut collection activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing. This is a book of what its teenage nonspeaking autistic author Imane Boukaila, calls &“tacit treasures.&” Where manifestos encounter poems and raps encounter essays, the lyric constellations that mark this debut sing in opposition to those &“troubled-abled&” who would coerce and control disabled lives. Boukaila offers another way: her &“LOL tressed philosophy,&” her truth. This liberatory philosophy exists at the periphery, thresholding, in all the places where life opens toward neurodivergent revolution. &“Treasures thrive in open spreading spaces,&” she writes. From the muddy streams shimmering with trout, to the space storms in the starry skies, to the tressing that exists between minds, Boukaila offers us a chance to make mistakes, to be messy, to learn and unlearn the languages we use to survive. Readers seeking &“treasures yet to be uncovered&” will find this and more in this expansive collection.