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Tyrone Williams reveals that every act of communication is a speculation, and that the spectacles we must use to see and assess itâ€”those of our own particular condition and conditioningâ€”are never without qualifying contour and coloration. Williams is a keen observer of the distortions of such lenses, as the titles of the two sections of this collection suggestâ€”first is an â€œEshuneuticsâ€ (interpretation purportedly infused with an Eshuâ€™s sensibility). But the tricksterâ€™s eye can turn to mock even its own powers of analysis, as Williams deftly demonstrates by calling the second section â€œPseudo-eshuneutics.â€ While the issues that Williams confronts come directly from an attempt say what it might mean to understand aspects of the African American condition of diaspora in the United States, these poems also implicate and illuminate the speculative enterprise that we each venture into whenever we attempt to articulate what we see and what we believe about it. At once immediately readable, intensely meditative, and brilliantly braced with philosophical reference, these tours through our human need to speak, and to understand, travel beyond the boundaries that constrain most poetry collections. Poems, plays, plays upon the making of such genre distinctions, are only some of the locations one will visit in these pages.
Country USA
Brand Omnidawn
Manufacturer Omnidawn
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781890650339
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Omnidawn
Manufacturer	Omnidawn
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781890650339
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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