The Little Edges - Couverture souple

Moten, Fred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819576700 ISBN 13 : 9780819576705

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The poetic vision, or sound, of The Little Edges is remarkable in its range of reference, deep music, surprise at every turn, softness of lyric address coupled with political meditation, and undeniable beauty. Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets and The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning"

The poems in The Little Edges work the margins of language the African American vernacular with its powerfully kinetic resources as well as the more elevated and elegant language of the academy blending and juxtaposing them in ways that result in an utterly fresh poetic idiom. --M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong!"

Moten's work is free speech in the best sense musical but with heft and will appeal to those who prefer their poetry to be beyond category. Chris Pusateri, --"Library Journal"

Moten pays homage to jazz history, poetry history, and the illimitable future of the imagination in works organized less autonomous poems than in page-length lines, blocks of text, and short riffs. --"Publishers Weekly"

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten s experiments in what he calls shaped prose a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the little edges of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission to comment upon a work of art, or to memorialize a particular moment or person. In Moten s poems, the matter and energy of a singular event or person are transformed by their entrance into the social space that they, in turn, transform. An online reader s companion is available at http: //fredmoten.site.wesleyan.edu."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0819576700
• ISBN 13: 9780819576705
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96