Welcome to our online companion for careful readers and teachers of Fred Moten’s poetry. You will find analysis of Moten’s work, interviews with the poet, and other information that will further your understanding of Moten’s work.
Moten’s newest book, The Little Edges, is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shaped prose”—a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the “little edges” of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission to comment upon a work of art, or to memorialize a particular moment or person. In Moten’s poems, the matter and energy of a singular event or person are transformed by their entrance into the social space that they, in turn, transform. To order a copy of The Little Edges, click here.
Fred Moten is a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. In addition to The Little Edges, he is the author of Arkansas, Poems (with Jim Behrle), I ran from it but was still in it, Hughson’s Tavern, B Jenkins, The Feel Trio, and the critical works In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney).
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