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Of Lilies Muskroot Crocuses and Something Similar

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And he sang for me in the Naropa hotel a mourning song his grandmother from rural

Pennsylvania taught him and that he later sang when his boyfriend Earth was killed. He was

thinking of singing it instead of talking about crystals on the panel but then talked about

crystals on the panel we were on together. And she handed me a strawberry from her

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Poetry in ruins

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Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil and The Devastation by Melissa Buzzeo were published by the same press, Nightboat Books, on the same day in 2015. How do these two works speak to one another? Taken together both pieces gleefully frazzle and implode a number of genres: novel, poem, historical fiction, autobiography, performance text, theory. The works situate readers in psychogeographical outskirts, landscapes that wish to enact a language turned away from violent erasures and silencings. Who does literature serve?

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