The Little Edges

by Fred Moten

Book Overview

Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses

Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)

The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"--a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819576700
• ISBN13: 9780819576705
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up