Hurdis Addo

By Samantha Giles

Poetry. In this brilliant meditation on urban space and our place(s) within it, Samantha Giles confronts head on the question of 'what is to be done?" "Start with a circle or something like it. Fear maybe. Circle as a symbol for the whole." Through a shifting, multilayered account structured around the 148 murders that occurred in Oakland in 2006, Giles takes us deep into the core of a set of urban contradictions and the subjectivities produced by them and begins the necessary work of asking where we might start to find a somewhere else. "A gall is a symbol. A tricky agreement with allegory. The gall operates as a symbol to the plant. Is this text a plant or a gall?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982212046
• ISBN13: 9780982212042
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Displaced Press
• Length: 151 Pages