What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on "Black Box"
"My poem, 'Black Box,' is beguiled by the metaphor of the black box as a way to broach the world, the people around us, and our own hearts. Part of that beguilement also has to do with the very limits of the black box metaphor itself; conceptual orderliness of a certain way of thinking can imprison us in a limiting framework—the black box is itself a black box. One way out of this is to construct more conceptual frameworks with horizons of possibility going far beyond what we hold to be true, or at least, visible." |
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On Fred Moten's Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
"Moten's project in perennial fashion presence falling and elsewhere is a dismantling of normative subjectivity—and what better way to dismantle subjectivity, to expand it and contract it and turn it around and upside down, than through the lyric poem? This is corroborated by the work of Black visual artists like Jennie C. Jones and Jack Whitten as well as scientists and theorists like Karen Barad, as disparate as their practices may seem. But even more than Moten dismantles personhood, in perennial fashion presence falling he dismantles thingliness, too."
via CLEVELAND REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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