B Jenkins Brandon ShimodaFred Moten The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poets mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Motens verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from
How can you know anything in a world of permeable boundaries
Waar hij de werkelijkheid afweert
maar ook de sterk ritmische (en vol met klank-rijmen staande) gedichten van daarvoor laten zien hoe belangrijk muzikaliteit en ook lichamelijkheid daarbij zijn
in een tweeling-uitgave
Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style
here presenting discoveries with surgical precision
always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten
"Reading Terminations is like watching a make-up tutorial in reverse—which is to say
which includes rivers and forests
and a love letter to all that remains
and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure
