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Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten by Will Alexander

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

by Will Alexander


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Unabridged Edition
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2 Hrs. 18 Min.
Year Released
2023

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Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who "transfigures 'thought' into a weave of lexical magic" (Philip Lamantia)

"The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, 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 brise 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.


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