{"product_id":"perennial-fashion-presence-falling-9781950268764","title":"Perennial Fashion Presence Falling","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between.\" So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection \u003ci\u003eperennial fashion presence falling\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eMuch like the poems found in The \u003ci\u003eFeel Trio\u003c\/i\u003e (Letter Machine 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist, and \u003ci\u003eAll That Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e (Letter Machine, 2019), the poems here present Moten's \"shaped prose\" on the page and the dizzying brilliance of both polyphonies and paronomasia. Within this collection, the poems hold an innate quantum curiosity about the infinitude of the present and the ways in which one could observe the history of the future. Poems beget poems, overflowing and flowering, urging deeper etymological investigations. In \u003ci\u003eperennial fashion presence falling\u003c\/i\u003e, Moten approaches the sublime, relishing that intermediary space of microtonal thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Moten\u003c\/b\u003e teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory at New York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArkansas\u003c\/i\u003e (Pressed Wafer, 2000), \u003ci\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), \u003ci\u003eI ran from it but was still in it.\u003c\/i\u003e (Cusp Books, 2007), \u003ci\u003eHughson's Tavern(\u003c\/i\u003eLeon Works, 2008), \u003ci\u003e B Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke University Press, 2009), \u003ci\u003eThe Feel Trio\u003c\/i\u003e (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist. He also is the co-author with Stefano Harney of \u003ci\u003eThe Undercommons: Fugitive Planning \u0026amp; Black Study\u003c\/i\u003e (Minor Compositions, 2013). \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718217142546,"sku":"9781950268764","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5be288f7-2e10-46b1-8090-824429915cc8.jpg?v=1754897477","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/perennial-fashion-presence-falling-9781950268764","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}