Let it go on: South poetry, fall/winter 2015

24th November 2021The Library of the FutureBhanu Kapil, Brandon Shimoda, Cecilia Vicuña, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Marina Fokidis, Quinn Latimer, South as a State of MindMinus Plato

Brandon Shimoda When someone breaks down Everyone leans into someone breaking down And touches that one It can go on – Brandon Shimoda ‘The Desert’ (The Song Cave: New York, 2018), p. 129. Bhanu Kapil What did Ban do that outweighed art? What kind of art did she produce? Returning to the U.S., I lay […]

Ban’s Bibliomancy

29th August 2021UncategorizedBhanu Kapil, Camera Lucida, Nightboat Books, Roland Barthes, The Library of the FutureMinus Plato

Trying to make myself write some sort of commentary on the latest “emergency” reportage, I tear up my notes as soon as I write them. – Roland Barthes Some books whisper to me as I pass through the shelves I haunt. The final pages of Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books 2015) , amid […]