Description
Poetry. African American Studies. "HUGHSON'S TAVERN is a sly, rowdy, big-eared book, lining out and sounding out, filled with desperado aplomb. Big-footed as well (reminding one of Olson's reminder that a foot is to kick with), it plies a 'boot-heel music' given to offhand acuity, tonic reprisal, declarative elan: Butch Morris meets Howlin' Wolf. As elsewhere in Moten's work, in HUGHSON'S TAVERN the wounded rally."—Nathaniel Mackey
Author Bio
Fred Moten lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer, 2000); In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Books, 2007); HUGHSON'S TAVERN (Leon Works, 2008); B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2009); THE FEEL TRIO (Letter Machine Editions, 2014); The Little Edges (Wesleyan, 2014); THE SERVICE PORCH (Letter Machine Editions, 2016); and co-author with Stefano Harney of THE UNDERCOMMONS: FUGITIVE PLANNING & BLACK STUDY (Minor Compositions, 2013).
Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA