{"product_id":"i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-paperback","title":"I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent book is a collection of talks he presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series titled \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2022). His most recent poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2021), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner, and a National Book Award, Pen America, Hurston\/Wright, Kingsley Tufts, and Big Other Book Award finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America's Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist\/lyricist Mark Campbell. Kearney is a 2022 McKnight Writing Fellow. A Whiting Writer's and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies\/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.5 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63797442707805,"sku":"9798891060128","price":39.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/XIT4bKMI6M9798891060128.webp?v=1773172029","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}