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and African American theory to produce writing unlike any other poetry in the world: "What is it to reside without settling

its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind

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The Little Edges Radical Trans Poetics and African American theory toFred Moten The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As occasional pieces, many of the poems in the book are the result of a request or commission