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The Malevolent Volume

Name: The Malevolent Volume
ISBN: 9781566895842

By
- Justin Phillip Reed
Publisher
- Coffee House Press

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Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric Poetry & Drama

The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime.

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.

Release date

Ebook: 7 April 2020