Judge Pascale Petit’s comments: “‘Brrmm’ reminds me of Marcel Duchamp’s ‘The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.’ In this experimental prose poem a partner is encountered as an engine. The couple become a human/machine hybrid. The language used to describe this metamorphosis is so dense and baroque that the paragraph resembles an assemblage sculpture, all mechanical parts, jasmine juice and lapis pigment. This piece, with its playful agglomeration of textures, like Duchamp’s ‘Large Glass,’ is both a love machine and a machine of suffering. Despite the surreal construct I believe that I’m reading about real people and real experience. It is indeed ‘the unexpected meeting, on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella,’ the tender, brutal meeting of one human with another.”