Ugly Agatha by Will Alexander
When looks could break a mirror. When little Agatha looks into a mirror, she sees only one thing: The ugliest girl in the world. Because of her repulsive appearance, Agatha avoids people unless she's completely covered with a droopy hood, a thick scarf, and big boots. But one day Agatha accidently rushes out of her house without her usual disguise and her neighbors see her face for the first time. They are shocked What will Agatha do? Readers take the harrowing journey with Agatha as her neighbors set eyes on her for the first time. Her life is changed forever
If it is an oddly futuristic arcana that Will Alexander invokes in his poetry and prose, it is at the same time the most familiar form of defamiliarization. Looking into the drawings that often accompany his texts, those scorings of his Mime Tornadoes and Psychotropic Squalls, often produces the same sort of vertigo felt when looking into deepest space through the most advanced of telescopic technologies. Our sense of being at the edge of the new is tempered by our knowledge that the light reaching us images ancient events. Alexander's science is a fiction that presents us with ancient evenings reflected in a mirror of scratch paper sonnets (Stratospheric 33). His is a future anterior that comes to us out of a tradition of African-American re-imagining. Sun Ra devoted a lifetime to telling us of other planes of there, other worlds they have not told you of, worlds that seemed placed simultaneously in ancient Egypt and deep in the future. The Art Ensemble of Chicago has built a career around their motto, Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future. Amiri Baraka's album of poetry and music It's Nation Time billed itself as Afrikan Visionary Music and carried cover art in which the ancient inscriptions of black Africa gave onto a futurist dawning of a new day past the pyramids. Each of these artists has contributed to a history of pan-African modernity, an internationalist, African-inflected surrealism that leads directly to Will Alexander's front door. Nielsen, Aldon Lynn Will Alexander's Transmundane Specific Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1999, pp. 409-416
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478761488 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478761482 |
| Title | Ugly Agatha |
| Author | Will Alexander |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Outskirts Press |
| Year published | 2016-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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