PIVOT
Imani Mason Jordon
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From the publisher
PIVOT is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of turning, with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone. It moves beyond historical narrative, scrutinising this epochal event through its critical junctures of rupture and radical reorientation. Using minimalist abstractions of language, Mason Jordan delves into the visceral and conceptual mechanics of turning: a turning away from colonial subjugation, and a turning towards new vocabularies of freedom. PIVOT examines international revolt, revolutionary fervour, and relation in the aftermath of transatlantic enslavement and European colonialism.
“Imani Mason Jordan’s book PIVOT is a staccato of the spirit, syllables gripping the tongue! This is an avant-garde in the true sense of the word, a place for every reader to take their place! Thank you, Dear Poet, for sparing us nothing, “swarmed over guns, and gunners, silences / nothing, two thousand dead lay upon the / field” – a brilliant collection of poems!” – CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return