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Gentry!fication: Or the Scene of the Crime

Chaun Webster

Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award, GENTRY!FICATION: OR THE SCENE OF THE CRIME is a labyrinth full of folk tale and sign, definitions and the black subjects who violate them. In a time where many cities across the nation are undergoing massive shifts in who peoples them, particularly in sites once considered abandoned and without value, this book is weapon of memory a stew of din meant to haunt shallow notions of what has remained or been allowed to remain in geographies. This book will stay with you.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Noemi Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2018
  • Pages: 100
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.10in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.20lb
  • EAN: 9781934819739
  • Categories: American - African American & Black

About the Author

Webster, Chaun: -

Chaun Webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster's debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry.