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Amiri Baraka's 'Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note . . . .' | Jacket2
Amiri Baraka’s
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note . . . . (1961) addresses writing in the context of suicidal fantasy. The title refers to a possible suicide note, one that emerges in concert wi...
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About us | Jacket2
About us
Jacket2 offers commentary on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. We publish articles, reviews, interviews, discussions and collaborative responses, archival documents, podcasts, and d...
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Antonin Artaud: The asylums and after | Jacket2
Antonin Artaud at the Rodez asylum
On his way back from Ireland in 1937, Artaud was put into a straight jacket. Once back on French soil, he was turned over to the authorities. This was the beginning ...
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Ngā Kaituhi Wāhine Māori — Māori Women Writers | Jacket2
Kia ora tātou katoa. [Let us all be well.]
He mihi tino mahana ki a katoa hoki. [A warm greeting to all also.]
Ko he korero tēnei mo ngā kaituhi wāhine Māori kei konei: ngā wāhine tino mōhio me ki te ...
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Inadequacy of skin and feather | Jacket2
Note: Jaimie Gusman’s new collection
Anyjar navigates the proliferating forms of body, memory, and self, through the lens of the Anyjar, which refers to a vessel that refuses any stable shape. A conc...
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William Bunge, the DGEI, & Radical Cartography | Jacket2
In 1968, the year after Debord’s
Society of the Spectacle appeared in print, a geographer by the name of William Bunge co-founded The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute with Gwendolyn Warr...