CRUEL/CRUEL The Tennis Court Oath

CRUEL/CRUEL The Tennis Court OathDior J. Stephens CRUEL CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by art and a soundtrack of Black musical traditions of resistance: from jazz to soul to experimental to hip hop. A hybrid visual and literary object, CRUEL CRUEL feels relentlessly present, and yet

there’s an epic

and of feeling difference in general and in all its generativity

Jean d'Amérique

which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea

the fetish bars of canonical literature

” “that dirty

Werkelijkheid en verbeelding ontmoeten elkaar in scherp getekende taferelen die de karige

We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great)

John Keene

Met bundels als Air Stream Land Yacht en Methodist Hatchet (Griffin Poetry Prize 2012) maakte de Canadese Ken Babstock al furore in de Engelstalige poëziewereld

earthbound and dishing our wages to bad clouds whose storage leaked plastics and chemicals in the ocean around us

In his findings