"When you read Janice, remember to breathe. But even if you manage to exhale, don't be too shocked to watch your breath crawl out of your mouth, unfurling like an antennaed pill-millipede successfully coaxed out of its privacy. Imagine A Death digs its fingernails beneath the craggy concrete slab of the ordinary and unveils a microcosmos of alien critters, teeming with perverse life of all kind...feelings and observations so subtle you wonder how they fell into Janice's trap. Read this story of trauma and connection and feeling and dreams and world endings. Read especially now during a pandemic apocalypse. Let Janice lure you into a breathless consideration: that the apocalypse isn't so much about cataclysmic endings as it is about the spritely appearing of a hue of a colour not yet named, of a connection newly made, of a howl sublimated into a sky that holds all things."
--Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences

"In the early hours of Janice Lee's Imagine a Death, a story is told about a crack in a wall out of which emanates an eerie light, then strange whirling sounds like eternity being shredded apart. What happens next is terrifying and profound, and seems to be not only an analogue for Lee's book, but a description of how she receives the horror vacui of the world and transforms it into a form of reparative spell-binding. Imagine a Death confirms Lee as the descendant of Béla Tarr, of moss that breathes, then hibernates, then breathes, of spiders in the corners of houses, of ancestral museums that only open past midnight, and of the earliest forms of shamanic storytelling."
--Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall

"A delicate constellation of lives both human and not that keep threatening to come together to form meaning but then, with each new section, changes shape, continuing to open up. Imagine a Death is an illuminating exploration of radical intersubjectivity, the understanding that even though everyone and everything potentially can touch everything else, nothing accumulates with narrative neatness. Through brilliantly complex sentences, Lee offers a disjunctive synthesis on the multifold possibilities and fears of being."

--Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

"Imagine a Death is a roving vision quest and a blueprint for a liberational politics of being in the world. Manifold transformation occurs as shifts in consciousness disrupt patterns of traumatic encounter. Unfolding intimacies among diverse relations cause the world to flex exponentially dissolving barriers of interdependence. Intricately sensitive and lucidly aware of the urgency of attending to and engendering the flourishing of livable worlds in uncertain times, Janice Lee demonstrates how a togetherness in sentience is extended, intensified and strengthened. Imagine a Death is ecstatic, gorgeous and wise; a revelatory book holding the persistent glow of terrestrial reality that involves all floral, faunal and mineral presence."
--Brenda Iijima, author of Bionic Communality

"It swarms, it engulfs, it burns with fabulous agglutination, it is a doorway to the other planes. The language rivets. Not unlike Egyptian psychology its protracted density can cause nutation in the cellular structure itself. The impact of evolutionary activism."
--Will Alexander, author of Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome