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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

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by Douglas Kearney
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Availability:In StockContributor:Douglas KearneyPublish date:2025-04-08Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9798891060128UPC:9798891060128Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Political & Protest, WarSize:7.50 x 7.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC6EKEYWT0

On the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization.

Through AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9798891060128UPC:9798891060128Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Political & Protest, WarSize:7.50 x 7.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC6EKEYWT0

Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent book is a collection of talks he presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series titled Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022). His most recent poetry collection, Sho (Wave Books, 2021), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner, and a National Book Award, Pen America, Hurston/Wright, Kingsley Tufts, and Big Other Book Award finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America's Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell. Kearney is a 2022 McKnight Writing Fellow. A Whiting Writer's and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.


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