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Having a scholarly book out in the world is weird! Hereās a part of it, on theorizing race over and against the narrative impulse, thanks to @atpost45.bsky.socialt.co/3Cs1c8I3nR
*** āIn the mark event, you enter your signature.ā So begins Seismosis, John Keeneās 2006 book of poetry, published as a collaboration with the artist Christopher Stackhouse. The quoted line is ...
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Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
Our cluster concludes with Fred Motenās letter, āA Thank You Noteā to Keene. āRemembering,ā āin the penetrant refrain of the beautiful horizon,ā āto sing your name,ā Moten closes us out. post45.org?p=21938
Dear John, Iāve been reading āTen Things I Do Every Dayā every day. āNow I donāt know anything anymore.ā What does sacred, ordinary protocol have to do with knowing anything or with knowin...
In his exploration ofĀ Punks, Tyrone S. Palmer underscores how Keene āapproaches language as the raw material for explorations of the innumerable forms and functions of Blackness.ā Desire fits & is & exceeds & undergirds poetic form. post45.org?p=21939
I. āDark to Themselves,ā the eponymous poem of the sixth section of John Keeneās Punks, begins with a command, which also serves as an ars poetica:āInvent, experiment: chaos . . . / Liberate t...
Matt Brimās āAn Escaped Slave and a Good Personā takes upĀ CounternarrativesĀ to closely & sensitively attend Keeneās complicated narratives of il/legality, belonging, morality, & historiography. post45.org?p=21869
One of the joys of encountering John Keeneās work is reading his many interviews. Out of respect for his interviewers and readers, time and again Keene finds ways to expand questions that risk closu...
For her work onĀ Counternarratives, Yogita GotalĀ considers how Keeneās approach to history and genre ā bespeaks a deeper, more oblique, and ultimately far more unsettling attempt to reckon with the history of race after slavery.ā post45.org?p=21875
āLong hours in the study of any text will reveal inner, unseen contours, an abstract architecture,ā writes John Keene.((John Keene, Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (New Directions, 2015), ...
In āPassagens Estranhas,āĀ @bamenke.bsky.socialpost45.org?p=21902
āOh, how delicious and practical it is that people think us strange . . . ā ā Hilda Hilst, Letters from a Seducer, translated by John Keene At the outset of Hilda Hilstās notorious anti-novel ...