A little late again for July but look who’s with me: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle‘s incredible new collection Sir is just recently published by Litmus Press. I have the honor of seeing this book from its very beginnings, and I cannot wait for you all to read it. Her art and art practice is similarly brilliant—if you haven’t encountered it, I invite you to do so.
Here’s Kenyatta’s pile:
Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola
Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida
Images & Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Eds. Paul Landau and Deborah Kaspin
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North, Eds. Brian Purnell, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard
Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith
Flash of the Spirit, Robert Farris Thompson
Madness & Civilization, Michel Foucault
GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime, Chaun Webster
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison
Raising the Dead, Sharon P. Holland
Gather Together in My Name, Maya Angelou
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown
Have Black Lives Mattered?, Mumia Abu-Jamal
Nativity, Nativité, Natividad, Lasana M. Sekou
Dear Angel of Death, Simone White
I’m So Fine, Khadijah Queen
The Feel Trio, Fred Moten
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
To look at the sea is to become what one is, Etel Adnan
Each month I think I have read almost nothing, and almost every month I’m pleasantly surprised I have indeed continued the project of reading literature consistently. I bought a few new things, too:
– NEWIES –
Sir, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (I cannot wait)
Sun at Midnight, Muso Soseki (trans. W.S. Merwin and Soiku Shigematsu, out of print)
Jus ad Bellum, Richard Fleming
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Katya Apekina
Twenty-First Century Woman, Meriwether Clarke
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Experiments in Joy, Gabrielle Civil; The Beekeeper, Dunya Mikhail; The Lice, W.S. Merwin; Potted Meat, Steven Dunn; The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde; Joy Enough, Sarah McColl; Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love, Anna Moschovakis; Home Remedies, Xuan Juliana Wang; The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú; Orient, Nicholas Gulig; Good Stock Strange Blood, Dawn Lundy Martin; Extratransmission, Andrea Abi-Karam; Book of Scab, Danielle Pafunda; Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado; The Interface for a Fractal Landscape, Ed Steck; Motion Studies, Jena Osman; The Winter Garden Photograph, Reina María Rodríguez (trans. Kristin Dykstra); I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, Tiana Clark; Little Birds, Anaïs Nin; Lo Terciario / The Tertiary, Raquel Salas Rivera; Love Dream with Television, Hannah Ensor; Still Nowhere an Empty Vastness, Roberto Tejada