W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls African and American, African-American is still being negotiated.In "Harlem," Spivak engages with thirty-four photographs by photographer Alice Attie as she attempts "teleopoiesis," a reaching toward the distant other through the empathetic power of the imagination. In the hands of Spivak, "teleopoiesis" is a kind of identity politics in which one...
W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone ke...
Alice Attie s inaugural volume of poetry is an invitation to collectively bend into silence as we bend into words. In "These Figures Lining the Hills," readers enter an eloquent, philosophically poignant space where we slip into the folds of language. Attie s voice is exquisite and singular. Her brilliant writing brings together language and the ineffable to inhabit the same liminal space where words may both "be" and "not be" in an oscillation of possibility and wonder. Her works are dazzling tributes to a poetics of the moment, where Attie s words are poised to take note of the...
Alice Attie s inaugural volume of poetry is an invitation to collectively bend into silence as we bend into words. In "These Figures Lining the Hills,...
Aleppo is Alice Attie's home city, where her grandparents were born, and with the poems in Under the Aleppo Sun, she takes us there to the months before Assad unleashed his attack in 2011.
Aleppo is Alice Attie's home city, where her grandparents were born, and with the poems in Under the Aleppo Sun, she takes us there to the months befo...
