Muscle Memory - 9781948587211

Kyle Carrero Lopez's MUSCLE MEMORY covers money & work, Blackness & anti-blackness, the art world, queerness, & violence--governmental to interpersonal--as it swerves through its colorful landscape. Lopez interrogates the various complications of earthly living in a sharp, fresh voice, returning again & again to the musical core of his poetics. Afro-Cuban drumming & disco & Solange commune as these poems ping-pong between reverent softness and unsparing critique. Equal parts jovial and furious, this is a debut with teeth. Winner of the PANK 2020 Book Contest. "Kyle Carrero Lopez's MUSCLE MEMORY is elastic. It crosses borders in flesh and mind, political and experimental, and codifies a personal realism. And this speaker journeys through lived imagery and music--rituals transfixed--remembrance."--Yusef Komunyakaa, author of The Emperor of Water Clocks Poetry. LGBTQ+ Studies. Latinx Studies. African & African American Studies.

• | Author: Kyle Lopez
• | Publisher: PANK Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 52 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948587211
• | ISBN-13: 9781948587211