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The Malevolent Volume
The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, ranging from the monstrous to the sublime.
National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed subverts celebrated classics of poetry and mythology while examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural realities. He engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus lurking beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those brutalized by state savagery. By doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.