There’s theoretical forgiveness, and then there’s personal forgiveness.
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski – Dhanveer Singh Brar
Brar’s book marks an important step in understanding the value of this music and how it allowed these black electronic musicians, DJ’s and MC’s to prosper against all the odds.
This connects to an anxiety I’ve had since childhood about wanting to record everything that’s ever happened, which is perhaps simply a fear of my own mortality, as well as the mortality of everything in this beautiful world.
A Strange Woman tells of a woman’s love affair with life, though it is a life that existed before her and will exist long after.
The Copenhagen Trilogy – Tove Ditlevsen
Critics reading Tove Ditlevsen’s work will dutifully make reference to her working-class roots, but seem unwilling to consider what impact these experiences might have had on her as a young writer.
Poetry Against All – Johannes Göransson
Johannes Göransson’s Poetry Against All, like Herzog’s diaries, moves beyond the realm of cataloging personal experience, becoming its own work, even if created in the shadow of another.
Larissa Pham’s collection boldly reinterprets the memoir-essay genre by accompanying her stories of love with ekphratic commentary on the visual, aural, and verbal language of intimacy.
Faith is inherent to surrender.
The author could be working safely at their desk or drowsing in bed, and remember some improbable situation or weak sentence, and the presumed-dead book feels somehow still half-alive…
Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan – Yetta Howard (Ed.)
Anyone working bravely, and transgressively, across forms in this way, and with as such a sustained career as Sheree Rose, may have to deal with pop radio versions of their craft. More often than not, the source artist must be intentionally sought out.