¡PÓNK!

Moose is stuck with Black cops in his family and rising punk stars in his classes, and Marcus Clayton explores his life with a sharp eye for the alienating absurdities of race, punk, and academia. ¡PÓNK! is funny and heady, warm and biting—required reading if you’ve ever been told you’re too much, or felt like you were not enough.

Marcus Clayton’s ¡PÓNK! disrupts genre conventions, juxtaposing punk culture with scholarly takes on race and power, mixing in a little bit of love and humanity for some balance. But don’t get too comfortable. His words will lift you above the crowd to witness truths from a different perspective. He will force you to interrogate everything you think you know about everything.

With relentless genre-bending dynamism, Marcus Clayton’s ¡PÓNK! is a truly astonishing take on the anti-memoir, pushing us to throw out worn-out ideas about race, culture, and geopolitical belonging. Clayton argues there is no easy solution to the matrix of violence and oppressions in which we find ourselves in this life, but punk music can teach us what freedom might look and feel like; how to push back, to shove, as the music roars on—and we must.