ISBN: 9798891060128

Category: Poetry / American / African American & Black

Page count: 128

<p>On the heels of <i>Sho</i> (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and <i>Optic Subwoof</i> (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, <i>I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always</i>, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization.<br> <br> Through AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, <i>I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always</i> almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.</p>