Sleeper Hold

Multimedia artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman's second collection of deceptively flippant poems is a jam of ventriloquy, frequencies, and the plainest vernacular of our day: low-brow entertainment and high aspirations for seeing and knowing.

Instead of Major Dad
why not

just watch
these commercials.

Your love

was going to take us higher

into space
and get us

into "Spanish"

and get rowdy
after the fact

Jibade-Khalil Huffman (Detroit, 1981) is the author of 19 Names For Our Band and James Brown is Dead. A graduate of Bard College, Brown University, and the University of Southern California, his work will be included in the 2014 Hammer Museum biennial.