What makes I’mpossible collab such an important and timely work is that its ten essays exemplify ways to read poetry more holistically within or even against the grain of the present by embracing a critical technique focused on drawing texts from different poetic mediums and genres together — from conceptual erasure poetry to the avant-garde. For instance, du Plessis often brings seemingly disparate poems side-by-side in relation to each other in imaginative ways which prove themselves — to use her own adverb — uncollared from “illusion of essentializing definition,” the sapped status quo of literary criticism, and the siloed, alienating nature of the contemporary moment.

—J Shea Carter, The Capilano Review

It is such a delight to read the thoughtful, thinking prose of Montreal-based poet, writer and critic Klara du Plessis, made more possible through the ten essays collected in her I’mpossible collab […]. The prose and thinking in these pieces absolutely sparkle, and I’m fascinated in how these pieces might not have originally been composed toward a collection but emerged as and into one, able to catch the ongoing threads of concerns and conversations on writing, thinking and form (and honestly, her piece on Dionne Brand alone is worth the price of admission).

—rob mclennan, rob mclennan’s blog