“Jay Besemer’s tensile lyrics palpate the many ambiguous and ambivalent spheres by which a person becomes known both to themselves and others—the public, the private, the domestic, the intimate, the bodily, the verbal.”
—Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne

“Theories of Performance pulses with urgent jolts that lead us to consider the many ways in which we are always putting on a show. . . . along the way we revel in the sound poetry of the pharmaceutical industry, in the known and unknown territory that is our guts, our lungs, our feet, our brains.”
—Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Performance of Becoming Human