SPEECH
by
Jill Magi
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
164362007X
ISBN-13
9781643620077
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Imprint
Nightboat Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2019
Print length
160 Pages
Product Classification:
Poetry
Ksh 2,350.00
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A deftly woven book-length poem that questions the existence of universal individual rights such as speech and citizenship, especially in relation to borders, both national and linguistic.
Comfortable neither with the self who is made entirely through autonomy or genealogy, SPEECH tracks the western-world idea of freedom, asking whether the person who believes they can say and write whatever they want is more free or less aware of the nature of free speech as a right everywhere. Formally, SPEECH invokes the action of walking and weaving: enjambed lines that accrue, building pages vertically through repetition of sound, syntax, and metrical patterning. In the book, a woman walks, threading her way through a cityscape that overlays west and east, here and there, past and present, self and other, creating a place and person neither and both.
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