Rollins, Alison C
Black Bell
- ISBN 13:
- 9781556597008
- author:
- Rollins, Alison C
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- COPPER CANYON
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 136
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 18.6 x 1.4 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Poetry, American, African American,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell is a poetic exploration of fugitivity, weaving together historical figures and futuristic fabulations to investigate the power of individual experience and collective memory.
The book draws inspiration from the 19th-century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, and features poems that travel across time and space, vibrating with fugitive frequencies and sounds of survival. Through its use of performance art practices, metalwork, and sonic elements, Black Bell becomes a multimedia meditation on freedom seeking.
By integrating lyric language with wearable sculptures akin to Nick Cave's "soundsuits," Rollins creates a unique and thought-provoking work that navigates the complexities of being both invisible and spectacle, hidden and on display.
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