poetic explorations of a radical post-cataclysmic future
March 23, 2018 5:35 AM   Subscribe

I just finished reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs' M Archive, "a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm". I'm totally in love with it and would like to read more in this genre.

The only other book that immediately comes to mind that I think falls in this genre is Antoine Volodine's Minor Angels, a series of prose poems that explore "a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves".

I'm looking for more books like this: prose poetry exploring feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist and/or anarchist visions of a future. The prose poetry aspect of this is important: as much as I love Ursula K. Le Guin, for instance, I'm looking for something different stylistically.

Thank you so much in advance for your help!
posted by dysh to Writing & Language (2 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: This seems to not be a super successful question, but I did find this, which looks totally amazing.
posted by dysh at 9:44 AM on March 24, 2018


Best answer: My copy of M Archive is still on its way to me, so this may be beside the point, but if her earlier story "Evidence" isn't in there/you haven't already read it, hit me up and I'll send you a pdf. Full-Metal Indigiqueer is in the same box as the Gumbs, so I haven't read it yet either, but seems like it might be of interest.

Otherwise: Samuel Delaney dhalgren comes to mind; it's not an exact match, but is close. And I feel like I must have more answers than this, so I'll keep thinking.
posted by dizziest at 8:47 AM on March 25, 2018


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