In this essay published on the Poetry Foundation site, Cathy Hong writes about the problems of finding or defining a single “I” or “voice,” and her belief in “English as an artificial, stiffish thing.” She goes on to read the severed syntax in Paul Celan and John Taggart as not (only) philosophical or “experimental” (as seems implied by Ron Silliman’s “new sentence”) – but also political. Hong wrote this article 10 years ago, but I think she would still point to the politicized “voice” as something beyond any one particular word or language, beyond the freedom of the mere “self-expression” she describes at the start of the article. As an advocate for writing that searches beyond given forms and language(s) to be “as much about what is unspeakable as about what is speakable,” her creative and critical work has always been of interest to me.