Poeta Doctus

Former student and present poet friend announces the imminent publication of his second trade edition, Bottom Rail on Top, “a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story [that] fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation, and stages the action in tandem with the matter of [the poet’s] own life.

You can hear the author say a few words on his new book and pre-order it by clicking on its cover: