All the Rage
A new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of Black desire, resistance, and joy.
Poetry
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All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the present condition of racism in the United States—a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity—from a variety of perspectives: being Black, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. At its core dwells “Living in the Abattoir,” a series in which people of color live out their days as both workers and meat. All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, “trending.”
Praise
All the Rage is a metropolitan poetics where protest and testimony do not spare confusion but makes within these passages—veering between performance and document—a new kind of torque. What are the facts? What are the ironies? Who is contradicting who? What just happened? What gets kept? This book is not only a cry of pain but also for joy, of what is possible and what may be impossible.
-LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
All the Rage is a barbwire slaughterhouse of American dysfunction surrounded by a moat of molten fury. Rosamond S. King wrote these poems with a claw hammer in one hand, a blowtorch in the other, and enough decibels to sear any virus, including presidential pestilences, into cinders. This book is highly recommended as a talisman against all forms of oppression and a bugle call for reckoning history. Dive in, dear reader, but remember, the safety’s off!
-Tyehimba Jess
All the Rage offers us an “etymology of scream,” a music and a poetics of testimony, an imagination and a voice of survivor who asks, and responds, as survivors do: “You still here? We still here.” Indeed, Rosamond S. King offers us many poetic modes, from documentary to imaginary narrative, but the truest languages of this book are music and tone that speak to us without patronizing, that tell it like it is: “America the beautiful / I am not safe.” Even the familiar propaganda here is turned into music and memorable phrasing: “We will protect you by turning the army into border patrol / we will protect you by turning the national guard into the police / we will protect you by turning the police into the paramilitary / we will protect you by attacking you in your homes // we will give you a receipt for your children.” Innovative and incantatory, All the Rage is first of all heart-breaking, honest. A spellbinding, inimitable book.
-Ilya Kaminsky
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Details
ISBN: 9781643620718
Paperback, 112 pages, 6.5 x 8 in
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Reviews
“Lambda Award winner Rosamond S. King’s All the Rage (Nightboat, Apr.) presents an intersection of Black, immigrant, female, and queer issues, with the gut-punch ‘Living in the Abattoir’ series at its heart presenting people of color living in an abattoir where they are both workers and product.”
“All the Rage (Nightboat), the second collection of poems by Trinidadian-American Rosamond S King, tacking ‘state violence, racism, and the persistence of Black desire, resistance, and joy’.”
Rosamond S, King’s second poetry collection, All the Rage, addresses the everyday joy, pleasure and ever-present force of racism in America. In a time where the focus on and threat of police violence on Black men and women is so great, creativity and artistry continue to rise. This collection addresses the reality of living in America from a multitude of perspectives, exploring how people of color might live in an alternate yet familiar reality.
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