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Before WhitenessD. 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 trains his analytical gaze on grim American subjects like the Middle Passage and lynchings, yet also finds inspiration in African American poets and artists. The book ends with Another Burning, a mournful

a Guggenheim Fellowship

the poet employs these idiosyncratic pronouns more sparingly

the solitary mother and the insurgent multitude

rapacious materialism

technology — that everywhere impinge locally and yet evade global apprehension

of terrifying wisdom

Cracked children’s rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirren’s first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick

readers will experience Alben’s unorthodox alter-ego-thinking-out-louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz

XIVLiners includes previously uncollected poems

Equal parts song

and even in the most flirtatious behavioral studies of human and non-human desire for connection

then about seeking to find the forms necessary to survive survival and survival’s requisite thoughts