Bøger af Alexis Pauline Gumbs

“Jeg ville ære dig med min huds ruhed, mine grænsers tykkelse og varmen fra mit eget fedt. Jeg ville ære dig med min stilhed og min vejrtrækning, min lytning længere og længere ud og ind. Jeg ville ære dig med langsomheden i mine eftertænksomme og yndefulde bevægelser. Jeg ville forsøge at være som dig, selvom de siger, at det er umoderne. Jeg vil huske dig. Ikke ved navnet på den, de siger “opdagede” dig, efter at oprindelige folk i generationer havde haft et forhold til dig. Jeg vil sige: Der var engang en enorm og tavs svømmer, en plantebaseret, ruhudet lytter, et tykt og yndefuldt pattedyr. Og så vil jeg være stille, så jeg kan høre dig ånde. Og så vil jeg trække vejret, og du vil minde mig om ikke at forcere det. Og tiden i mig vil dysses ned. Og så lytter vi for alvor.”Udruknet er en poetisk, alternativ guidebog medværkmeditationer, der optegner mulige forbindelseslinjer mellem Sort feminismes organisationsformer og havpattedyrs overlevelsesstrategier. Det er en bog om at lytte på en måde, der er dyb og revolutionær. Og om, at ingen er frie før alle er frie.

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of ''vision'' and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

"A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde"--

Poets and writers Susan Howe and Alexis Pauline Gumbs read each other's work and discuss reading and being read as an act of intimacyPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Alexis Pauline Gumbs (born 1982) is the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020), and the cofounder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an "intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance."Susan Howe's (born 1937) most recent poetry collection was Concordance, published in 2020 along with a reissue of Spontaneous Particulars (2014), a prose meditation on her research in rare book collections. Her selected essays, collected in The Quarry, were published in 2015, and a poetry collection, Debths (2017), won Canada's Griffin Award for Poetry in 2018.

The concluding volume in a poetic triptych, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise.

Engaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examining the possibilities of being that exceed the human.

In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.