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Of forests and of farms : on faculty and failure

Title
Of forests and of farms : on faculty and failure / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves.
Author
Greaves, Adjua Gargi Nzinga, 1980-
Publication
  • Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
  • [Berkeley, California] : Small Press Distribution ; [London] : Inpress Books
  • [Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Kuan, Chuck
  • Lawson, Sarah
  • Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
  • McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.
  • Don't Look Now (Firm), compositor.
Description
43 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 20 cm.
Summary
"What do plants want, and where within our bodies might we know it? Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves's bibliomantic excursion unearths pastoral metaphor in books she used to inspire, direct, and reflect upon her performance "unschoolMFA" (2012-2015). If you see me, and I am glowing, it is because I did not let my first teachers kill me. An ouroboric Blackness traverses a settler fantasy of The Cultivated Wild. A fable of fruit trees and alphabets to feed a wilderness that refuses its name. Take good care / to shape with language / worlds that want to hold us all.
Series Statement
2020 Pamphlet Series
Uniform Title
2020 Pamphlet Series.
Subject
  • African American women authors
  • Ethnobotany $$x literature
  • Intersectionality (Sociology)
Note
  • Text printed in black and green.
  • "Edition of 1000 copies. Series design by chuck kuan and Sarah Lawson, Typeset by Don't Look Now! Type is New Century Schoolbook. Cover paper and flyleaf from French Paper Co. Printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Flyleaf printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Call Number
JX 23-906
ISBN
  • 194643342X
  • 9781946433428
OCLC
1236033846
Author
Greaves, Adjua Gargi Nzinga, 1980- author.
Title
Of forests and of farms : on faculty and failure / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves.
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
Distributor
[Berkeley, California] : Small Press Distribution ; [London] : Inpress Books
Manufacturer
[Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
2020 Pamphlet Series
2020 Pamphlet Series.
Biography
"Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves (New Yorker, b. 1980) is a Pushcart-nominated poet concerned with postcolonial ethnobotanical literary criticism, the limits of language, and archive as medium. Greaves has most recently been published in The Brooklyn Rail, the collections Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing (Kore Press), and Creature/Verdure (Pinsapo Journal), as well as in her chapbook Close Reading As Forestry (Belladonna*). Formerly a Monday Night Reading Series curator at The Poetry Project, she will be an artist-in-residence with The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island, Florida in early 2020 and serves as Site Director of Wendy's Subway in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Local Subject
Black author.
Place of Publication
United States New York Brooklyn.
Added Author
Kuan, Chuck, series designer.
Lawson, Sarah, series designer.
Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.
Don't Look Now (Firm), compositor.
Research Call Number
Sc D 21-767
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