Books by Fred Moten and Complete Book Reviews

The Little Edges
The Little Edges
Fred Moten. Wesleyan Univ, $22.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7505-0
The latest from the prolific poet, scholar, and 2014 National Book Award finalist (for The Feel Trio) follows serious arguments about the confusing, or revolutionary, power of words and the power of sound. But it’s also a lot of fun: Moten pays...
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The Service Porch
The Service Porch
Fred Moten. Letter Machine (SPD, dist.), $14 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-0-9887137-7-2
Moten (The Little Edges) fuses high and pop culture in a new collection that is as varied and malleable as his vernacular. The poems often feel like disparate fragments stitched together and can initially appear impenetrable. But the work is...
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Someone to Talk To
Someone to Talk To
Liu Zhenyun, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin. Duke Univ., $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8223-7055-0
The emotional struggles of China’s rural poor fill this ponderous, bifurcated novel from Liu (I Did Not Kill My Husband), a previous winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Baishun flees his home, Yang Village, after discovering his father’s plot to
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