The Little EdgesFred Moten The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission

elf bundels

maar kan ook niet om haar verlangen naar wraak

vernietiging en rouw

and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness

stond de kerk in de middeleeuwen lijkopening toe

schrijvers en denkers in de loop der eeuwen hebben bedacht

“beyond human experience

A frottage aesthetics trying to bring life back to life

and poets screaming in their tombs with mouths full of dirt

Bernadette Mayer

Fetal Position is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter-generational violence

White meditates on trap music and the ways artists such as Future and Meek Mill and the sonic waves of the drum machine convey desire and the black experience