“The accents in The Feeling Is Actual are shrapnelled clips of attention that cluster in Javier’s incendiary field of poetic perception. The texts reconnoiter and reveal, scope and identify the minute registers of alienation and disjunction at the edges of words. Joker: I’m a man of my word. Words that jar with a syllabic static to recuperate a palpable interference in the channels of this racialized/radicalized writing. a missed sipping/ a musty reeve. And reified by the subtle concretions of cartoon and photographic imagery, subtle markings that can turn the page into a post and lead us through the high occupancy lanes of these performances and texts. This is rush-hour poetry, so pay attention!” — Fred Wah