![]() ![]() ![]() We may not know exactly how we moved from one to the other, but there's pleasure in getting lost in the dance."-David Wallace, The New Yorker "With its jazz exuberance, the book has the maverick spirit of one of its heroes, the multi-media artist Ralph Lemon: no hierarchy, no fluidity, no care-ridden pursuit of time, just bold, wild, delirious genius Moten is intent above all on not being anybody's 'Project.' Anarchronistically whimsical and erotic, his writing consolidates the spirit of jazz well beyond the aim and resources of a Langston Hughes or even an Amiri Baraka. unfolds as a chain of references, from free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler to Andrew Marvell. The poem 'all topological last friday evening, ' collected in Moten's 2015 book, The Little Edges. "In, he gathers the sources running through his head and transforms them into something musical, driven by the material of language itself. ![]()
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