The Malevolent Volume
Read by
Justin Phillip Reed
Release:
04/07/2020
Release:
06/15/2020
Release:
06/15/2020
Runtime:
1h 53m
Runtime:
1h 53m
Runtime:
1h 53m
Unabridged
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“These are strong poems, showcasing a range of moods and affects. Sometimes punctuated, otherwise so neatly joined they don’t need it. Sometimes gentle, in other moments, wielding fury’s high bright tone.”
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The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime. Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the otherthan-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.
Release:
2020-04-07
2020-06-15
2020-06-15
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
1h 53m
1h 53m
1h 53m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.35 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781980090304
9781664492820
9781664764712
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
Recorded Books, Inc.
Recorded Books, Inc.
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