{"product_id":"refractive-africa","title":"Refractive Africa","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRefractive Africa\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWill Alexander\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811230278\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"The poet is endemic with life itself,\" Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, \u003cem\u003eRefractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten\u003c\/em\u003e, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. \"This being the ballet of the forgotten,\" he writes as diasporic witness, \"of refracted boundary points as venom.\" The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo--two writers whose luminous art suffered \"colonial wrath through refraction.\" A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as \"charged aural colony\" and \"primal interconnection,\" a \"subliminal psychic force\" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance--incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Refractive Africa | Will Alexander | Paperback | 9780811230278 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1784229","offer_id":67623090782360,"sku":"1784229","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81-ewYZGLbL.jpg?v=1790957862","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/refractive-africa","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}