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Title

Singing in magnetic hoofbeat : [essays, prose texts, interviews and a lecture, 1991-2007] / Will Alexander ; edited and with an introduction by Taylor Brady ; afterword by Andrew Joron.

Author

Alexander, Will.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Essay Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Brady, Taylor, 1972-
• Joron, Andrew.

Description

xvi, 269 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"One of the most prolific and original figures in the field of contemporary literature, Will Alexander is known worldwide for his arresting explorations of European and Caribbean surrealism, postcolonial history, twentieth-century philosophy, and contemporary scientific theory. Here, Alexander undertakes nothing less than a redefinition of the essay form itself, opening an "artery of twilight" wherein aesthetic, political, historical, social, cultural, scientific, and theoretical discourses often become indistinguishable elements of a holistic investigation into the composition--or, re-composition--of the physical and metaphysical worlds. Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat is an indispensable record of Alexander's thought, and confirms his reputation as one of the foremost exponents of Afro-futurist modernism."--P.[4] of cover.

Subject

• African diaspora
• Alexander, Will > Interviews
• Poetics > 21st century

Genre/Form

Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The magical site where the future must convene. Los Angeles: The explosive cimmerian fish ; A gallery coexistent with inspiration ; A small balletic hive ; Igniting the inward prodigy ; A note on the ghost dimension ; To the bloodless refugees of emptiness ; Against the state and its future as a homicidal enclave ; Current empire as nemesis ; China: Modern aspiration as morass ; The emblazoned ontogenic ; Concrete: A ubiquitous but vexatious pragmatic ; At the depth of the radiolarians. -- A human intensity. Charles Fourier: Spark of the harmonian lightning wheel ; On Clayton Eshleman ; The impact of a living being ; Acknowledgment ; Nathaniel Mackey: "An Ashen Finesse" ; On Merilene Murphy ; For Laurence Weisberg ; Re-emergence from the catacombs ; Beah Richards ; Sheila Scott-Wilkinson:"Encountering a tiger on a narrow path" ; Johnny Sekka: Paragon of the immaculate ; The footnotes exploded ; At penultimate remove ; Philip Lamantia: Perpetual incandescence. -- The wing of imaginal African anti-gravity. Above a marred poetic zodiac and its confines ; The Caribbean: Language as translucent imminence ; A fugitive note on Haiti ; Singing in magnetic hoofbeat ; A new liberty of expression. -- A relentless meteoritics. Spirit and practice ; Alchemy as poetic kindling ; Exactitude ; Poetry: Alchemical anguish and fire ; Transgression of genre as vitality ; The birthmark ; Pronouncement ; Green ; A poetics of the impalpable ; Taking issue with Ubiquitous reduction ; Ventriloqual labor ; The zone above hunger. -- The way one speaks, the way one walks. Hauling up gold from the Abyss (with Harryette Mullen) ; A profound investigation (with Marcella Durand) ; Alchemical Dada ( with Grant Jenkins) ; Sunrise in Armageddon (with Spuyten Duyvil) ; Inalienable recognitions.

ISBN

• 0979118972 (pbk.)
• 9780979118975 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library