Why is Ciplusius a man?

I want to read writers that make me want to write.

I want to read sentences that make me stop in my tracks, do a double take, require multiple repeated readings.

I want to read pieces that break my heart, that are hard to read, that make no sense, that make everything make sense.

I want to read genres that play with genres, forms that play with form, novels that make you question what a novel is, poems that make you question what a poem is.

I want to read words that attempt to redefine their definitions, to redefine what it means to be a word.

I want to read things that are transgressive, marginalia made text.

Story is secondary, narrative potentially not relevant.

And perhaps therein lies my approach to Ciplusius.

It's not about what the story is, who he(?) was. It's about what the story isn't, how to see yourself in it.