{"product_id":"i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-douglas-kearney-paperback","title":"I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always -- Douglas Kearney, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Kearney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 7.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798891060128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent book is a collection of talks he presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series titled \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2022). His most recent poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2021), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner, and a National Book Award, Pen America, Hurston\/Wright, Kingsley Tufts, and Big Other Book Award finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America's Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist\/lyricist Mark Campbell. Kearney is a 2022 McKnight Writing Fellow. A Whiting Writer's and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies\/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas Kearney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49663411159268,"sku":"9798891060128","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9798891060128.jpg?v=1786953198","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always-douglas-kearney-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}