Kristiana Rae Colón –  promised instruments, 2012

Kristiana Rae Colón – promised instruments, 2012

Taking its cue from Toni Morrison’s declaration that “language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names,” Kristiana Rae Colón’s promised instruments stitches its own definitions for what is granted, what is surrendered, what is pilfered, and what...
Ed Roberson – Closest Pronunciation, 2012

Ed Roberson – Closest Pronunciation, 2012

Northwestern University Press is honored to publish Ed Roberson’s Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In...