Dawn Lundy Martin's Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived experience. Martin writes poems that seek out moments when the box buckles, or breaks, poems that suggest there is more. Life in a Box is a Pretty Life continues Martin's investigation into what is produced in the interstices between the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black (or female, or queer) in contemporary America.
- ISBN10 1937658317
- ISBN13 9781937658311
- Publish Date 7 October 2014
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Nightboat Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 80
- Language English