"In Erin Dorney’s Yes I am Human I Know You Were Wondering, the distinction between the I and the You—already pretty flimsy in my experience—gets even murkier. Dorney orchestrates its eventual conflation through metaphysical prose poems and organically unsettling collages that foreground the power differential between an ever-widening range of relations: celebrity and fan, teacher and student, beloved and lover, pixels and flesh, writer and reader. She weaves Adriene’s wellness speak and broad directives through deftly described loneliness (‘We are the taxidermied trying to twist.’) and word music (‘Lies leaf-out late—clotted and dirty.’). Dorney writes, ‘An illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation’ and I nod, happy to be lost alongside her in the slipperiness of the real."
—Sommer Browning, author of Good Actors