Of Being Dispersed by Simone White
Of Being Dispersed by Simone White, graduate, MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School.
Futurepoem Books, 2016
From the publisher: Macaronic plenitude of language instantiates places and states of mind. If Edouard Glissant says that we write in the presence of all the world’s languages, then we have in Simone White’s OF BEING DISPERSED, an underground stream reaching the surface of the page—in lines acrobatic and limber, fluent in code switch, mood shift and modes of inquiry. I read White’s volume as a poetic lens on the specificities of the diaspora and the ‘dispersed,’ written with baroque skepticism, feminist vision and attention to the complications of a Black yet to be storyed any/where. —Erica Hunt