The little edges
By: Fred Moten
Series: Wesleyan poetry; Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780819575050
Work titles: Poems
Description: The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"--a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission to comment upon a work of art, or to memorialize a particular moment or person. In Moten's poems, the matter and energy of a singular event or person are transformed by their entrance into the social space that they, in turn, transform.