neckbone: visual verses

“You look at it and think, this is a book that primarily deals in black vernacular. But does it? It’s so deeply fixed in a visual tradition that it really troubles the connection between orality and visuality. It asks those questions directly: what’s the connection between hearing and seeing? When you hear a black person speak, does it also mean you can see them?” Read more...

The Best Poetry Books of 2019

Simone White, Literary Scholar