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WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL 3 HOLE PRESS OPEN CALL
Hassan has written a Black litany that is also a Black liturgy. UNTITLED. (1-5) is a chanting down of Babylon without and Babylon within. It takes the staccato collapses of composure under duress, and drums them into a crazy rhythm. This is a chant that wields laughter against comedy, but preserves the humor within the grotesque. It gradually builds sound into a wave that crashes over any remaining threadbare notions of a sovereign self.--Tavia Nyong'o
Reading UNTITLED. (1-5), I felt my eyes playing across the page, even as I could feel the language in my body and hear it, too, in my ear. Hassan is taking the reins the ruins, of this language, American English, and making new language.--Agnes Borinsky
What an extraordinary work. I greatly appreciated this audio and literary performance piece as existentialist musing, as self-reflection, as play with the temporal and typographical. Such a delicious, robust offering.--Aleshea Harris
Drama. Poetry. Essay. Hybrid.
Author: Nazareth Hassan
Publisher: 53rd State Press
Published: 10/30/2022
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.30w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780998276380
ISBN10: 0998276383
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | General
- Literary Collections | General
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