Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21

by D.S. Marriott

Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.

A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of inscribing and decoding Blackness in poetry, Before Whiteness ranges from medieval Beowulf to contemporary UK grime. Born in Britain but now living in the U.S., D.S. Marriott...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872868842
• ISBN13: 9780872868847
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 6.9"