wordtomydead Late Human In Scardanelli

In Scardanelli

a backyard skunk—McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day

and The Tumbler stands a critical study of freedom

" poet and publisher Nicole Delgado's essay wonders how to live a life of poetry

wordtomydead Late Human In ScardanelliSad Powell wordtomydead is a practice in black feminist poethics. using a 1940s mechanical typewriter, sad mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness. the concrete poetics deployed on with against the typewriter serve as scores for plenum sociality: your head stretches to the page, eyes squint, tongues stutter as you read the cascading letters