Dear Angel of Death
By: Simone White
Contributors: Ugly Duckling Presse
Edition: First edition.
Series: Dossier series; Dossier series (Brooklyn, NY)
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781937027674
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "Half poems, half prose, Dear Angel of Death braids intimate and public thinking about forms of togetherness. Is one woman a mother, a person in an artworld, a "black"? What imaginary and real spirits are her guides? The title essay proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness "is" and includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey's neverending novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop's convergence with capitalism"

"Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. A meandering and dead-serious meditation challenging the centrality of Black Music to black poetry and black critical theory, Dear Angel of Death proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness "is." This long essay includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey's neverending novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop's convergence with capitalism."
Notes: "Edition of 1600 copies"--Title page verso.

Poems and prose.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158).