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These new narratives reshape the past, charge the future. Here is poetry not rooted in the mythologies of nation-states, here is poetry that casts new light.
Eduardo C. Corralon Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, by Paul Hlava Ceballos & Quenton Baker
Fugitive Assemblage is mysterious, restless, searching, flat out beautiful, and finally, heartbreaking.
Amina Cainon Fugitive Assemblage, by Jennifer Calkins
You got to be grown, and willing to honor Blackness/queerly to receive all that this book is. This writer gots swagga. Makes me want to cuss and twirl . . . and hold this book tight.
Sharon Bridgforthon The High Alive, by Carlos Sirah
There has never been a more compelling case to radically re-imagine our relationships to more-than-human animals and our environment.
Sarah Benson, Director of Soho Repon Bloodtide, by Eli Nixon
A rare voice of embodied multiplicity, Megan Sandberg-Zakian transfigures happy endings to honest endings, even beginnings, that bring us into contact with the creative chaos of “live” life.
Ruth King, author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Outon There Must Be Happy Endings, by megan Sandberg-Zakian
Lyrical, breathless, incisive, Diane Exavier’s The Math of Saint Felix marks her as a rising star in the next generation of Black poetics.
Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminismon The Math of Saint Felix, by Diane Exavier
Freeman awakens us to numinous possibilities that await both in art and in the whole wide world around us. It is a book of uncommon grace.
Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentaryon The Illuminated Space, by M Freeman
A brilliant exploration of the senses, and how sound is a way of understanding the complexities of the Black experience.
Charles Johnson, National Book Award winneron Joy Has a Sound: Black Sonic Visions, a collaboration with Wa Na Wari
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