Rimming the Event Horizon

Rimming the Event Horizon is a mutinous poetics of revenge that uses contingency as a mechanism of racialization and resistance. It is a constant, experimental exercise of antagonism, a brutally disruptive xenogenerosity that traverses metastable topologies of gender and race. The poem dangles us over the edge headfirst, tongues out, in a universe that must simultaneously avenge and take revenge on itself.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2023
Publisher: The 87 Press

Rimming the Event Horizon is a mutinous poetics of revenge that utilizes contingency as a primary mechanism of racialization, while also serving as a source of resistance and refusal. It is not a punitive poetics but rather an ongoing, experimental exercise of antagonism, a brutally disruptive xenogenerosity (Harney & Moten). This collection encompasses a range of rotations, revolutions, and revolts, from the lick of a cyclone to the whirl of a dervish; the flick of a dragon's tail to the ultra-slow swirl of galaxies or precarious life circling the drain. Traversing metastable topologies of gender and race as both complicitly mattered and out of control, Rimming the Event Horizon intrudes into a universe that must simultaneously avenge and take revenge on itself. Looping the line between life and death, it dangles us over the edge headfirst, tongues out.

Sabeen Chaudhry's Rimming the Event Horizon is an index of oracular horrors, both asymptomatic and vicious animal. This is a work of devastation in the present, but also one of many aftermaths. Chaudhry invites a reading of the poem as bruised verticality. A livid ghost shares space with wrecked daughters at the rim of a well. Is this the portal? LICK CYCLONE is the instruction. In this way, a reader's opacity weakens. There's nowhere not to look.

For fans of Momtaza Mehri, Jen Calleja, and Lola Olufemi.

Weight: 118g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781739393946