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Carjackin, Mahid Rose.
"logical garbage can on every sensation"
Rose is a Philly city poet, perhaps in both the Schuyler sense of the phrase (as one rearranging queer subjectivity in tandem w the rapid cultural and physical rearrangement of gentrifying postwar New York City) and the Scalapino sense of the phrase (affective urbanism, concerned with the image of the city and its spiritual and emotional effects of its residents). These poems rapidly oscillate between an artistic compressing, flattening and rendering of The City of Brotherly Love and a superanimation, inflation, and saturation of those same places, with the poet's body as both the psychoactive drug that plunges the surrounds into and out of hyperreality, a tuning fork that orients them (and us) to these surrounds, and the plain and loveable flaneur. Gratitude movement, indeed: periphery station crunk below) ) / sleep in sequence a tin machine "
As Davy Knittle writes on Simone White's collection On Being Dispersed, " abstraction’s violence is its disappearance of a subject position from which to refuse. The refusal of both received narration and abstraction is crucial to Black experimental writing that provides a lineage apart from the frequent white collapsing of the nonrepresentational and the avant-garde." These poems--about a city, its inhabitants, and a subject within that group--themselves constitute a city: breathing, dirty, sexual, and building information in real time.
Mahid Rose is a poet living in Philadelphia, PA.
Mahid Rose, Carjackin'. 30 pages. 8.5"x11", laid endsheets, side stapled. Covers printed on Royal Fiber Ice Blue cardstock, interiors printed on Royal Fiber natural heavyweight text paper. Printed in a first run of 175 books. Printed, assembled, and bound in “Kingston, New York,” the unceded and currently occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee, Mohican, Munsee Lenape, and Schaghticoke. Design by The Aliens.
"logical garbage can on every sensation"
Rose is a Philly city poet, perhaps in both the Schuyler sense of the phrase (as one rearranging queer subjectivity in tandem w the rapid cultural and physical rearrangement of gentrifying postwar New York City) and the Scalapino sense of the phrase (affective urbanism, concerned with the image of the city and its spiritual and emotional effects of its residents). These poems rapidly oscillate between an artistic compressing, flattening and rendering of The City of Brotherly Love and a superanimation, inflation, and saturation of those same places, with the poet's body as both the psychoactive drug that plunges the surrounds into and out of hyperreality, a tuning fork that orients them (and us) to these surrounds, and the plain and loveable flaneur. Gratitude movement, indeed: periphery station crunk below) ) / sleep in sequence a tin machine "
As Davy Knittle writes on Simone White's collection On Being Dispersed, " abstraction’s violence is its disappearance of a subject position from which to refuse. The refusal of both received narration and abstraction is crucial to Black experimental writing that provides a lineage apart from the frequent white collapsing of the nonrepresentational and the avant-garde." These poems--about a city, its inhabitants, and a subject within that group--themselves constitute a city: breathing, dirty, sexual, and building information in real time.
Mahid Rose is a poet living in Philadelphia, PA.
Mahid Rose, Carjackin'. 30 pages. 8.5"x11", laid endsheets, side stapled. Covers printed on Royal Fiber Ice Blue cardstock, interiors printed on Royal Fiber natural heavyweight text paper. Printed in a first run of 175 books. Printed, assembled, and bound in “Kingston, New York,” the unceded and currently occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee, Mohican, Munsee Lenape, and Schaghticoke. Design by The Aliens.
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