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I**A
Dense, poetic, and takes time to power through.
Dense, poetic, and takes time to power through. Lots of "aha" moments. Gumbs is witty and wildly creative. Try reading both her books together (Spill 2017) for an intense soul searching ride.
M**T
Each page is a gift, a revelation
Your life will be better for this...
J**S
I started reading it, and I couldn't stop.
I know I will keep revisiting and rereading this poetry.As Alexis Pauline Gumbs describes in the note preceding the text, "this speculative documentary work is written from and with the perspective of a researcher, a post-scientist sorting artifacts after the end of the world. This is you beyond you" (p. xi).Don't let the structure of the book intimidate you out of reading it. I am a fan of dystopian and post-apocalyptic literature, but even if that is not your genre I'm sure the beauty and truth in these poems will resonate with you. Gumbs writes with the kind of clarity and connection-making that only comes from taking a "far-into-the-future" perspective.I read this after an academic semester of reading (also beautifully truthful) books like In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe and The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King. Many of the themes from these texts - critiques of western humanism, capitalism and antiblackness - are also threaded throughout this book.At times witty. At times tragic. It's a lesson in breathing and liberation. An invitation to think after and with our present apocalypse. A truly transformative text.
C**A
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Fast delivery! Amazing writer
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