Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.
As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture, and performance alternately uphold and subvert this violence. With genius precision and an avant-garde sensibility, Kearney examines the nuances around Black visibility and its aestheticization. In myriad ways, Optic Subwoof is a book that establishes Kearney as one of the most dynamic writers and thinkers of the twenty-first century.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
- You Better Hush: Blacktracking a Visual Poetics #werewolfgoals
- Red/Read, Read/Red: Putting Violence Down in Poetry
- Note on collaboration: Red/Read Version
- I Killed, I Died: Banter, the Poetry Reading, and Self-Destruction
- Appendix: Q&A with Cave Canem
Circa l’autore
Douglas Kearney has published seven poetry collections, including Sho (Wave, 2021), which won the Griffin Poetry Award and the Minnesota Book Award, and which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Most recently, he published Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022), a Bagley Wright Lecture Series book. He is also the author of Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and the California Book Award silver medal for poetry. M. Nourbe Se Philip calls Kearney’s collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues (Subito, 2016), “a seismic, polyphonic mash-up.” Kearney’s Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publisher’s Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
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