Life Without Air Blood on the Fog black poetry and black poetics

black poetry and black poetics come into their own by exploding

If history sees writers as tops and muses as bottoms

The shepherds are prescribed Ritalin

before shaking it off in the spirit of resistance and joy

Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts

Life Without Air Blood on the Fog black poetry and black poeticsDaisy Lafarge When Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to thrive as life without air. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection