wordtomydead / sadé powell.

First edition.

Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023.

[Berkeley, California] : Distributed in the USA by SPD/Small Press Distribution ; [Newcastle upon Tyne ] : Distributed in the UK by Inpress Books

Saline, MI : Sheridan

©2023

1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm

BEIN Za7 Ug6 2023W: "First printing, 2023"--Colophon. Original wrappers. The words "and binding" canceled in red in colophon.

Designed by sadé powell; typeset by Michael Newton.

"sadé powell is a native new yorker and antidisciplinary poet, exploring fugitivity, legibility, and interobjectivity through visual and concrete poetry. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1940s mechanical typewriter to experiment with dissemblance as proximity and relation to otherwise potentialities. sadé holds a ma in performance studies at nyu tisch. her work can be found in Kolaj Magazine, and Tiny Spoon"--Publisher's website (viewed 2023 July 20).

"wordtomydead is a practice in black feminist poethics. using a 1940's mechanical typewriter, sadé mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness. the concrete poetics deployed on/with/against the typewriter serve as scores for plenum sociality: your head stretches to the page, eyes squint, tongues stutter as you read the cascading letters falling off the margins you race to find understanding to rest on. you may find yourself spinning in circles, zigzagging across the page, deciphering what you can and being jolted by the static of what recedes from you. roaring through this project is an embodied feeling of black study, an illegible, unspeakable, and unreadable social aesthetic practice"--Publisher's website (viewed 2023 July 20).

word to my dead

English

August 23, 2023