“I’m fascinated with the way the poems in A Future Perfect expand and contract, focusing simultaneously on the quarks and the cosmos of meaning, language, and purpose. The collisions Aigen facilitates are remarkable for their density and energy, working through and against space, time, and topology even prior to the first word. This is an enviable debut.”
—rob mclennan

“Falling somewhere between Deleuzean thought, tea leaf divination, and Demetri Martin’s stand-up comedy, Razielle Aigen’s poetry strives to collapse our distinction between surface and depth.”
—Broken Pencil Magazine

“It is as if Razielle Aigen awoke one morning to a new genre of poetry: She creates a lyric metaphysics of evanescent life, where metamorphoses are the norm and each aspect of being vibrates in connection to all others. In this new land, word, thought, and world find one another, lose one another, and meet again, surprised at being just here, just now. A book that is, itself, a cause for celebration.”
—Susie Linfield

“A Future Perfect takes us into the phenomenological world through a language that constantly shifts and reorders. Like a new genetic sequence, Aigen’s poems reinvent themselves as you read. This illuminating debut is an invitation to come up to the light of all that is within us.”
—Degan Davis