Echo's errand /
Juxtaposing semiotics and the histories of the transatlantic slave trade through the frame of Black feminist cultural critique, these poems enact language, art and race like no other. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, we are taken on an ekphrastic journey through fascination and utterance,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Black Ocean,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Juxtaposing semiotics and the histories of the transatlantic slave trade through the frame of Black feminist cultural critique, these poems enact language, art and race like no other. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, we are taken on an ekphrastic journey through fascination and utterance, as the poems orbit and pass through the works of Cy Twombly, Jacques Derrida and Hortense Spillers. Here Jones conjures the longue duře of the Middle Sea and the Middle Passage, by excavating history through its vanishing figures and the always already erasure of voice. Twombly once wrote, "White paint is my marble." In Echo's Errand, the white is the page. |
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| Physical Description: | 84 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 193956851X 9781939568519 |