To write today in English means using an idiom that is hegemonic, 'globalized, ' no longer national. Vacated. A human, though, is necessarily sited, and here we find Mullen's "Subject. Its movement open to both '(gone) and suture, ' it grasps an anxiety in American speech too often covered over by Americans, though it's visible in the world. To cite Agamben: 'the ethical subject is a subject that bears witness to a desubjectivization.' Mullen's 'subject' is not one of triumphalism; it articulates the 'no-one, ' ninguen, the 'not-even-who' that generates being's fibre, its viscosity, presence. In Mullen, 'Belonging to a body/To itself unrecognizable' is followed by 'Open the doors. Here.' Her 'here' is poetry that American English needs."--Erin Moure