The Malevolent Volume - Justin Phillip Reed

Category: Adults, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: African American Queer

Written by Justin Phillip Reed
Read by Justin Phillip Reed
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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 other-than-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.

Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
Release date: 04-07-20