unrest in the nebulae

“Can you read a kreol text without colonizing it? As I read unrest in the nebula, I experienced the beauty of refusing to consume or colonize language while finding myself at the edge of geological layers, and compacted histories of earth. These prose poems document a conversation far too old for any one lifetime, charting violence and possibility, rupture and healing. This book is reteaching me how to read.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub: Finding Ceremony

“The book asks after rebuilding a relation with earth that might happen by way of a rebuilding a relation with word . . . but not a rebuilding organized by coherence, sameness, the colonial devouring of difference but rather an anticolonial poetics and poethics . . . that dwells with rupture. You should not just read this book but sit with the stakes of its call for other modes of engagement.” - Sarah Jane Cervenak, author of Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life