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As Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian write in the anthology \u003ci\u003eWriters Who Love Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Daniels’ talents spin in every conceivable direction. Her writing continues to investigate and illumine corners of the world often neglected by the white capitalistic structures of patriarchy that shapes our lives from birth to death. Daniels’ work reveals a history, a legacy, a plan of action for the future. 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A lyrical unleashing into the many selves, the author here plays conduit for many beautiful bodies; for those souls wandering at daybreak; for the pudgy greased cheeks and those that murmur in the dew of twilight uncloaked. It is as if the poet has extracted from the marsh, the runoff, roundup and peat to stockpile and make lush a new yet familiar world. S*an has created a collection of diamonds from the salty mines of turtle tears. The divorced defanged possessive absent its apostrophe, left to the mud puddle for butterfly nuptials throughout, tells the reader: \u003cem\u003eHow you know me Now will be Different from how you knew me\u003c\/em\u003e. These buoyant poems that are S*an’s latest songs have not missed the train this time. Make certain that you don’t. I’m in awe.' – LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'S*an D. Henry-Smith’s reverberant propositions seek the music of mutual renewal, constantly and impatiently approaching the present. This is a field of spiraling, alliterative song, the wild signature of Henry-Smith’s lyric, that renews commitments to militancy by naming and knowing its enemies as doubtlessly as it names and knows it lovers. \u003cem\u003ePACES THE CAGE\u003c\/em\u003e considers a set of conditions—technical, material phenomena—that produce collective and contradictory imaginations and gives words to the song that makes the gathering last, “all in for all…” \u003cem\u003ePACES THE CAGE\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful rehearsal of attentiveness, a rigorous and generous correspondence with the edges of the frame.' – dove, Christine Kirubi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49618414240074,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/PACESTHECAGE_mockup.webp?v=1766425463"}],"url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/collections\/contemporary-black-poets.oembed?page=2","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}