Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
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Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten
“some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between.” So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashion presence falling. Much like the poems found in The Feel Trio (Letter Machine 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist, and All That Beauty (Letter Machine, 2019), the poems here present Moten’s “shaped prose” on the page and the dizzying brilliance of both polyphonies and paronomasia. Within this collection, the poems hold an innate quantum curiosity about the infinitude of the present and the ways in which one could observe the history of the future. Poems beget poems, overflowing and flowering, urging deeper etymological investigations. In perennial fashion presence falling, Moten approaches the sublime, relishing that intermediary space of microtonal thought.Fred Moten teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory at New York University. He is the author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Books, 2007), Hughson's Tavern(Leon Works, 2008), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2009), The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist. He also is the co-author with Stefano Harney of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781950268764 |
| ISBN 10 | 1950268764 |
| Title | Perennial Fashion Presence Falling |
| Author | Fred Moten |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wave Books |
| Year published | 2023-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Truman Capote Award 2020 (United States), Winner of MacArthur Foundation 2020 (United States), Short-listed for National Book Award 2014 (United States) |
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