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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture Paperback – September 8, 2020
by Anais Duplan (Author)

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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture

Brand: Black Ocean

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UPC: 9781939568328

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Authors: Anais Duplan

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Paperback : 126 pages
ISBN-10 : 1939568323
ISBN-13 : 978-1939568328
Product Dimensions : 4.3 x 0.5 x 6.9 inches
Publisher : Black Ocean (September 8, 2020)
Language: : English

Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACKSPACE: ON THE POETICS OF AN AFROFUTURE is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anaïs Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word, "liberation." With a focus on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technology--luminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackey--Duplan offers three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. Arguing that true freedom is impossible without considering all three, the book culminates with a personal essay meditating on the author's own journey of gender transition while writing the book.

About the Author

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a book of essays, BLACKSPACE: ON THE POETICS OF AN AFROFUTURE (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, TAKE THIS STALLION (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). His writing has been published by Hyperallergic, PBS News Hour, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, and the Bettering American Poetry anthology.

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