Optic Subwoof Paul Celan and yet the bird messengers

and yet the bird messengers avouch disaster

Most of the texts are built from a number of moving parts that tend to lurch from one to another: transcribed speech

Fort Not is a savagely brilliant debut

visually stunning and commanding on the page

Optic Subwoof Paul Celan and yet the bird messengersDouglas Kearney Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021. As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture, and performance alternately uphold and subvert this