
Midnight Bestiaries
Andre Bagoo(Author)
Broken Sleep Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-916938-45-8 (ISBN)
Description
'We have always been imaginary,' declares this mesmerising collection from Trinidadian writer Andre Bagoo. In prose poems that make use of the liminal qualities of the form - and anticipate the book's second half - readers travel across ideas of the bestiary as mythic repository and realist document of social critique. Trinidad and Tobago looms large, but so too writing, loving, and reckoning with subjugations through transformations. The collection's heart is an extended erasure of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle, a gesture inspired by critical theorists such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Kevin Ohi. Releasing queer desire from within James's prose, there is something sensual, even romantic, about this incursion into source text, which sings against larger, global absences. 'Eventually,' Bagoo triumphantly declares, 'we dream the real.'
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Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-916938-45-8 (9781916938458)
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Person
Andre Bagoo is a poet, writer, essayist, and visual artist. He lives in Trinidad with his dog, Chaplin.