Phillip Brian Harper, in his reading of Annotations, describes the complicated processes through which invocation and formal narration together sketch experience and identity in @jstheater ’s first novel. post45.org?p=21928

Unembodied Blackness and Social Critique: John Keene’s Annotations - Post45

One of the most remarkable features of John Keene’s thoroughly remarkable 1995 publication Annotations is that it manages to register as a distinctly African American work without even attempting to...

For her novel approach to Seismosis, Margo Natalie Crawford thinks thru how Keene & Christopher Stackhouse worry & fold lines (visual & poetic) & “meet in that "different plane" where the black experimental is indeed a way of representing blackness thru not representing blackness” post45.org?p=21872

The Black Experimental Impulse: Returning to Seismosis - Post45

A student in my recent “Twenty-First Century African American Literature” seminar insisted, “We should stop using the phrase ‘Experimental Literature.’ All creative writing is an experiment....