This is a deep dive into the beginnings of Human Literature. We focus on the The enduring exhortation of “I AM.” The “I AM” begins as ritual speech, becomes personal voice, is seized by theology as absolute authorship, is destabilized by mysticism, redistributed by revolutionary poetics, operationalized in political resistance, and internalized as psychological integration.

A poem inspired by “The Yellow Wallpaper”, (1892) a psychological horror novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman