Chaun Webster - Other Suns

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Wail Song / André 3000’s NewBlue Sun / expectations of black masculine performance / the desire for legibility / other suns / Sun Ra’s Blue Universe / sordid relationship with poetry / poetry that seeks the end of poetry, the end of genre and disciplinarity / what is left of poetry after its stripped of material norms / poetry’s exceptional theoretical burden / resisting the norms of value / historical traumas disrupting a linear senses of time / work in oppositionality to use / the terms of value / Afropessimism / noise as less cohered / din is discourse / Édouard Glissant / chasing that inarticulable thing / a space where speaking in tongues is normative / dreams as an archival space / dreams disrupting narrative / a wallet

Chaun Webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Webster's latest book is Wail Song, published by Black Ocean Press in 2023.

https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/wail-song