How to speak? What must a way of speaking look like in order to make relationships truly experienceable, rather than obscuring, coarse, or sedating the relationship to them? And what must a poem look like so that it does not merely sound pretty, but allows the body and thought to engage in different movements? Anja Utler's answers run counter to the currently prevailing discourses and simultaneously open up a field of new questions. Among other things, it takes aim at a literature that is unquestioningly accepted, the tendency toward everyday self-enslavement, and common terms like score, tradition, and experiment, which tend to obscure rather than illuminate poetic texts. "From the Bones of Gentleness" is a powerful plea for a way of speaking that exposes, touches, and scratches. It features equally combative and vulnerable texts that provocatively invite engagement.