Looking for Trouble: A Conversation with Maud Newton
Are these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
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...moreMetaphor can make life more bearable, meaningful, or simply comprehensible.
...moreComposition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
...moreTo be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
...moreHannaham reserves his most vivifying language for planes and crashes.
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...moreAshley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
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...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreI was finally going to fit in in this foreign country.
...moreThis book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
...moreA democratic art, the poet says, will take us through. Come November, vote.
...moreHistory itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
...moreIsabella decided “to take her freedom into her own hands.”
...moreThese are not poems to read quickly, but to return to repeatedly.
...moreGenevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
...moreTara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
...moreAimee Liu discusses her new novel, GLORIOUS BOY.
...moreBilly-Ray Belcourt discusses his new book, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
...moreWe left because they never gave us back our bodies.
...moreA Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.
...moreXandria Phillips discusses their debut full-length collection, HULL.
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