The Sealey Challenge Day 22! The Little Edges by Fred Moten

I started strong, became slightly skeptical, became enamored, and then finally read the back of the book. I want to see what I see--not what other poets or THE POET, wants me to see. Then, after my initial experience--that's when I read. I knew that social commentary was being broken down into narrative, sound, and music. Check--that was supposed to happen. What intrigued me about the backmatter was the idea of '"shaped prose." ... "A form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them."' Mind blowing!!!!

I am in love with this idea, and I see how the diverse forms, white space, and brief bits of narrative thread through. I recognize the play with sound, as a companion to my own experimentation and that I will not speak too much because I feel it would be appropriation. I recognize a fellow lover of sound though and I am honored to have read this collection.