Shayla Lawz

speculation, n. (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

speculation, n. by Shayla Lawz won the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize and imagines a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death.

Shayla Lawz's debut collection brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body. It revolves around a central question: what does it meanin the digital age, amidst an inundation of mediato be a witness? Calling attention to the images we see in the news and beyond, these poems explore what it means to be alive and Black when the world regularly speculates on your death.

The speaker, a queer Black woman, considers how often her body is coupled with images of death and violence, resulting in difficultly moving toward life. Lawz becomes the speculator by imagining what might exist beyond these harmful structures, seeking ways to reclaim the Black psyche through music, typography, and other pronunciations of the body, where expressions of sexuality and the freedom to actively reimagine is made possible. speculation, n. contends with the reala refracted past and presentthrough grief, love, and loss, and it speculates on what could be real if we open ourselves to expanded possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680063
• Artikelnr.: 70880997

Autorenporträt

Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her writing and hybrid/sound work appears in McSweeney's Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she teaches in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.