Will Alexander

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Refractive AfricaPaperback, 2 November 2021

Refractive Africa
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Print Length
112 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published
2 Nov 2021
ISBN-10
0811230279
ISBN-13
9780811230278

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"The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo--two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance--incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery.

Product Details

Author:
Will Alexander
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 November 2021
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm
ISBN-10:
0811230279
ISBN-13:
9780811230278
Language:
English
Pages:
112
Weight:
181.44 gm

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