<em>Poems of the Black Object</em></br>Ronaldo Wilson

“Ronaldo Wilson’s Poems of the Black Object is a warning to anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies freedom. Livid inside an apocalyptic negative capability, these poems are constructed through their maker’s deconstruction, and reading, I too, felt unmade. In this uncompromising book, Wilson negotiates the terrain of his individual and culturally constructed identity vowing ‘To identify with the fractured self, the process of the it forced apart by language.’ Though it is through the image, or ‘found photo’ that the poet locates a ‘forming poetic,’ it is in the transformative syntax of this fierce book, in the revision of a first language commonly called mother-tongue, that somewhere entirely new is made.”  
—Claudia Keelan 

Fall 2009
112 Pages, 6 × 8 inches
Paperback Poetry
978-0982279809
$15 U.S.