Before Whiteness Bhanu Kapil It is a recognizably contemporary

It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism

and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment

poems of elemental wildness and healing

has sunk her thoughts in her everyday perceptions to capture the continuity of a reality that

How does a woman of the present century see herself

Before Whiteness Bhanu Kapil It is a recognizably contemporaryD. S. Marriott A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of inscribing and decoding Blackness in poetry, Before Whiteness ranges from medieval Beowulf to contemporary UK grime. Born in Britain but now living in the U. S., D. S. Marriott trains his analytical gaze on grim American subjects like the Middle Passage and lynchings, yet also finds inspiration in African American poets and artists. The book ends with Another Burning, a mournful