Refractive Africa

Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa
Will Alexander
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Paperback
h198 x 131mm - 128pg
6 Jan 2022 UK
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9781783788309
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Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This ' pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. The collection turns around the long middle poem, using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history, honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area. He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt. Fierce, compelling, and full of astrological reckoning, this book is a ' savage enunciation' : ' this is the Congo vertiginous with derangement with its foul & delimited hygiene with its "weaver bird nests" with its sprawling grasslands with its "ghostly voltage" as flares from old oil rigs thus our intelligence forcibly blunted our thought stream injured as culpable integument within this compound negation terror persists snaking its way through interior suppression'
Will Alexander is a critically acclaimed, LA-based poet, philosopher, visual artist and poet. He has won a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He has published numerous collections with various publishers in the US, Refractive Africa will be his first UK publication.
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ISBN-13: 9781783788309
Published: 6 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 131mm
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 165g
Pages: 128

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