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@QuentonBaker

they/them | poet laureate of hellworld | cave canem fellow | 2021 nea fellow | ballast (haymarket, 2023) https://t.co/Iq5rhpH4Kg…

in a book, probably Katılım Haziran 2018
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ballast enters the world today. it took seven years and a whole mess of effort/grace/love from a lot of folks to make it possible, and i am profoundly grateful. may it live a long life.
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Gabrielle Bates
Gabrielle Bates@GabrielleBates·
I’m not saying a person should never use the construction “I too…” in a poem, or never use an “O ____” direct address near the end of a poem, but I do think it’s rewarding to question those & other common moves when they appear in drafts & try different language, just to see.
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George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم
@QuentonBaker You've genuinely written one of my favorite recent books & I know it's going to unlock so much for my students' thinking. Was talking to Natasha Trethewey about ballast when we were having a back & forth on erasure and I gifted her one of my haymarket author copies of the book 😭
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UC Irvine, one of the most sterile backdrops for a college campus you will ever witness. And a woman with a soul
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Rick Barot
Rick Barot@BarotRick·
I'm not sure if John Berryman is much on the poetry radar these days, but some of his Dream Songs are never far from my mind or from my sense of being a poet. Especially this one, which I've been haunted by for decades...
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2024 we not arguing back and forth with people who want to kill us
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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD
Carolyn Ownbey, PhD@carolynownbey·
@QuentonBaker Not kind, just honest! This is a phenomenal piece of writing. It is gorgeous & terrible; it so sharply indicts centuries of anti-black violence & erasure. That much was apparent even before I got to "Washing the Bones." An astonishing achievement, truly. I thank you for it. ♥️
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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD
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I have just finished, in one sitting, @QuentonBaker's *ballast* ... & tho I rarely comment on literature like this, I feel compelled to say: ballast is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever encountered. I am astonished, bereft, shaken. A profound experience.
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Refaat Alareer reads from Light in Gaza
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George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم
Really grateful that my books are published with presses who express principled, material support for Palestinians, esp in times like these. Support ALL of these amazing & brave presses, esp the smaller ones who need us now more than ever
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