Dear Angel of Death

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. A meandering and dead-serious meditation challenging the centrality of Black Music to black poetry and black critical theory, Dear Angel of Death proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness "is." This long essay includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey's neverending novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop's convergence with capitalism.

• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• The Book of Ephraim
• Of Being Dispersed
• Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being)
• The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
• Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
• WHEREAS: Poems
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)