{"product_id":"i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-9798891060128","title":"I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent book is a collection of talks he presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series titled \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2022). His most recent poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2021), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner, and a National Book Award, Pen America, Hurston\/Wright, Kingsley Tufts, and Big Other Book Award finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America's Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist\/lyricist Mark Campbell. Kearney is a 2022 McKnight Writing Fellow. A Whiting Writer's and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies\/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199782322450,"sku":"9798891060128","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb09c994-bf74-43e6-a45f-dbb8d0f6c0a9.jpg?v=1744885685","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-9798891060128","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}