Squatting…On Derek McCormack's "Castle Faggot" (Semiotext(e) 2020)

Polly Pocket Child Punishing Hell Anti-Review, originally published in The Minute Review.

I try for a long time to write a review of Derek McCormack’s Castle Faggot. It’s not impossible, but my phone redlines Faggot as an unreal word. 

(lustre too; lustre than what?)

At first I try by attempting to write a short fiction in response, less a fiction and more a formative memory of mine with the scaffolding of fiction to constellate all the missin…