In this excoriating collection, we see Smith painfully question their role as an artist in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd, in their hometown Minneapolis-St Paul... Admit it Danez, you loved / Your master loved / Knowing the colour at the end of my chain / Matched mine...Smith's interrogation of poetry's complicity in suffering is expressed in brilliantly crafted, rhythmically complex verse...
An explosive and wildly intelligent collection from one of the UK's most exhilarating poets, considering how sound and listening might be entangled with politics, liberation and transformation... These sonically fierce, experimental poems wrestle with the difficulty of making one's true self known through sound... At the same time as speech can fail, music can escape the stranglehold of stories told and retold...
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