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With a new introduction by Calvin Bedient Claudia Rankine's second
poetry collection, The End of the Alphabet, is an inquiry into
despair and recovery, selfhood and alienation. Centered on a
heroine named Jane, these poems--obsessive, intrepid, erotic--speak
in the aftermath of a life-altering tragedy, attempting to make
peace with loss and find redemption through mourning. Rankine
writes with unflinching attention to exterior detail and emotional
nuance, as well as with linguistic and formal innovation, crafting
an extraordinarily powerful, utterly unique portrait of sorrow and
strength. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine
welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the
grotesque, courting paradox into the center of her voice. Whether
writing about intimacy or alienation, what remains long after, in
searing echo, is this voice--its beguiling cadence and vivid
physicality. There is an unprotected quality to this writing, as if
each word has been pushed out along the precipice, daring us to go
with it. Rankine's power lies in the intoxicating pull of that
dare. Beyond all else, these poems will leave the reader changed,
for The End of the Alphabet is the work of one of the most
intriguing voices in contemporary poetry.
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Rashid Johnson
Claudia Rankine, Sampada Aranke, Akili Tommasino
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‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ – New
York Times The most comprehensive publication to date on widely
celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media
that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and
performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic
body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal
references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with
the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have
labelled ‘conceptual post-black art’. A precocious talent (his
work was included in the seminal ‘Freestyle’ exhibition in New
York in 2001), Johnson received the High Museum of Art’s David C.
Driskell Prize, which honours contributions in the field of
African-American art.
Artist Rachel Jones's first publication, say cheeeeese, is
published to accompany her new commission at Chisenhale Gallery,
London, in spring 2022. For her first solo exhibition in an
institution, she has developed her chosen materials of oil pastels
and oil sticks to produce a new body of paintings on canvas and
paper. The publication will feature reproductions of new works by
Jones alongside her photo essay and newly commissioned texts by
poet and artist Anaïs Duplan; Chisenhale Gallery Senior Curator,
Ellen Greig; curator and researcher Aïcha Mehrez; poet, essayist,
playwright, and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine; and curator Yates
Norton; with a foreword by Chisenhale Gallery Director, Zoé
Whitley.
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited
follow up to her groundbreaking book "Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An
American Lyric
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Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial
aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily
life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights,
seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in
the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court
with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane,
online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses
come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay
alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging,
Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of
citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, "Citizen" is a powerful
testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our
contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Adrienne Rich whose poetry is “distinguished by an unswerving
progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity†(The New
York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought
discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical
discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining
both self and society. This volume traces the evolution of Rich’s
poetry, from her earliest, formally exact and decorous work to her
later poems, which became increasingly radical in both form and
content. Displaying the entire body of Rich’s poetry, The
Collected Poems gathers and commemorates all Rich’s boldly
political, formally ambitious, thoughtful and lucid work.
Her third collection of poetry, Claudia Rankine's Plot is original
and enchanting, and the language, as in her acclaimed The End of
the Alphabet, never ceases to startle and confront.
Plot is a postmodern dialogue about pregnancy and childbirth.
Liv, the expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, find themselves
propelled into one of our most basic plots -- boy loves girl, girl
gets pregnant. Liv's respect for life, however, makes her reluctant
to bring a new life into the world. The couple's electrifying
journey is charted through dreams, conversations, and reflections.
A text like no other, it crosses genres, existing at times in
poetry, at times in dialogue and prose, in order to arrive at new
life and baby Ersatz. This stunning, avant-garde performance enacts
what it means to be human, and to invest in humanity.
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015 WINNER OF THE
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015 WINNER OF THE
PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015 WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FOR POETRY 2015 'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a
stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then
I just knew. 'And you are not the guy and still you fit the
description because there is only one guy who is always the guy
fitting the description.' In this moving, critical and fiercely
intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the
experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp
vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer
meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical -
which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane,
Mark Duggan and others. Citizen weaves essays, images and poetry
together to form a powerful testament to the individual and
collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society.
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The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by
the acclaimed author of Citizen In this, the landmark achievement
that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine
invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they
find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl,
girl gets pregnant. The couple's journey is charted through dreams,
conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly
moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby
Ersatz. Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy
and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of
self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv's
reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly
daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language
and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and
existence.
A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE
REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning writer Claudia
Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be
Lonely 'Riveting' Bernardine Evaristo, TLS (Books of the Year)
'Brilliant' Gary Younge, New Statesman (Books of the Year) 'Timely
and powerful' Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times 'One of our time's
most incisive, brilliant and necessary intellectuals' Sean Hewitt,
Irish Times 'Ranking is a writer of genius' Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sunday
Times At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself
riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike
are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how
can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking
the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light,
Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends
and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where
our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the
theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to
enter into the conversations which could offer the only humane
pathways through this moment of division. Just Us is an invitation
to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, and to
breach the silence, guilt and violence that surround whiteness.
Brilliantly arranging essays, images and poems along with the
voices and rebuttals of others, it counterpoints Rankine's own text
with facing-page notes and commentary, and closes with a bravura
study of women confronting the political and cultural implications
of dyeing their hair blonde. Wry, vulnerable and prescient, this is
Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than
in being true, and being together.
The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever
more unable to process its own toxins Here, available for the first
time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first
developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward
Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original
combination of poetry, lyric essay, photography and visual art,
virtuosically deployed. Don't Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine's
meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism,
medicated depression and television's ubiquitous influence. Written
in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt
meditation on life and death in a nation in flux.
With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape
photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of
race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American
photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of
underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering
dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has
also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series,
presented together here for the first time, he addresses African
American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and
immediate. In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project, a series of
paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of
the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street
Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the
violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black is a group of
large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that
reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The
book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within
Bey's wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the
past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate
the works' evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing
the particularities of and resonances between two series of
photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present.
Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(February 15-October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(November 7, 2020-March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (April 16-October 3, 2021)
Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task,
as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the
traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to
contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first
attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each
chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a
brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a
notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the
post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem
and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the
most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the
21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any
reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and
sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading
their work.
Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth
Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak,
D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin
Young.
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which
innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness,
focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic,
racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consider
poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this
volume's poets create sites, forms, and modes for entering the
public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the
contemporary. Like the earlier anthologies in this series, this
volume includes generous selections of poetry as well as
illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays. This unique
organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. A
companion website will present audio of each poet's work. Poets
included: Rosa Alcala Brian Blanchfield Daniel Borzutzky Carmen
Gimenez Smith Cathy Park Hong Christine Hume Bhanu Kapil Mauricio
Kilwein Guevara Fred Moten Craig Santos Perez Barbara Jane Reyes
Roberto Tejada Edwin Torres Essayists included: John Alba Cutler
Chris Nealon Kristin Dykstra Joyelle McSweeney Danielle Pafunda
Molly Bendall Eunsong Kim Michael Dowdy Brent Hayes Edwards J.
Michael Martinez Martin Joseph Ponce David Colon Urayoan Noel
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting
sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st
Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes
generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time
as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on
their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable
teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at
contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net
by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three
generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included
in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang's modes
of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman's kinds of listening,
Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom "english / is a
foreign anguish"), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson's
confoundingly beautiful surfaces. A companion web site will present
audio of each poet's work.
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting
sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st
Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes
generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time
as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on
their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable
teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at
contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net
by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three
generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included
in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang's modes
of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman's kinds of listening,
Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom "english / is a
foreign anguish"), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson's
confoundingly beautiful surfaces. A companion web site will present
audio of each poet's work.
Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking
serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so,
how? What does it mean to be experimental? How can lyric forms be
authentic? This volume builds on the energetic tensions inherent in
these questions, focusing on ten major American women poets whose
collective work shows an incredible range of poetic practice.
Each section of the book is devoted to a single poet and contains
new poems; a brief "statement of poetics" by the poet herself in
which she explores the forces -- personal, aesthetic, political --
informing her creative work; a critical essay on the poet's work; a
biographical statement; and a bibliography listing works by and
about the poet. Underscoring the dynamic give and take between
poets and the culture at large, this anthology is indispensable for
anyone interested in poetry, gender and the creative process.
CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock
Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman,
Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Harryette Mullen.
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which
innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness,
focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic,
racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consider
poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this
volume's poets create sites, forms, and modes for entering the
public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the
contemporary. Like the earlier anthologies in this series, this
volume includes generous selections of poetry as well as
illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays. This unique
organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. A
companion website will present audio of each poet's work. Poets
included: Rosa Alcala Brian Blanchfield Daniel Borzutzky Carmen
Gimenez Smith Cathy Park Hong Christine Hume Bhanu Kapil Mauricio
Kilwein Guevara Fred Moten Craig Santos Perez Barbara Jane Reyes
Roberto Tejada Edwin Torres Essayists included: John Alba Cutler
Chris Nealon Kristin Dykstra Joyelle McSweeney Danielle Pafunda
Molly Bendall Eunsong Kim Michael Dowdy Brent Hayes Edwards J.
Michael Martinez Martin Joseph Ponce David Colon Urayoan Noel
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