House of Envy of All the World

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Simone White

2010

Factory School

 
“Is all black desire corrupt? If American aspiration is linked to the desire to have whiteness, be male and make money, what, now, can a decent person want? Family, death, power, Poetry and blackness — each is implicated in a general failure of perfection and subjected to furious lyric rethinking in Simone White’s work; a poetry of ideas where ‘the whole limbic system [becomes] an event,’ ‘decorous’ and profane, precise and bewildered.” — Small Press Distribution