Moon Mirrored Indivisible by Farid Matuk PAPERBACK 9780226840000

Moon Mirrored IndivisibleAuthor(s): Farid Matuk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226840000, 978-0226840000\nSynopsis\nMultilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.\n An inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of versenot as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuks meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric I and others, including poets, the speakers pa.