B Jenkins

by Fred Moten

Book Overview

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten's verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346966
• ISBN13: 9780822346968
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"