Poetry, and in fact all art, entails at the outset a willed loss of identity, a giving up of fixed structure so as to be able to go beyond the inherited possibilities which even when masquerading as possibilities are mostly straight-jackets.

Pierre Joris, 2011

Insofar as “identity” thinking – whether of the gene or the dyad or the race – denies relatedness to other units, it prevents us from understanding how things work ...