And so I’m just following behind them in that respect. And part of what’s striking about those two is their intense engagement with music - particularly, with black music.
Moten: The two biggest influences for me are Amiri Baraka and Nathaniel Mackey. How do you see this book operating on the level of sound, both in form and content? There are also multiple overt references to song, to singing and to music. You utilize a lot of repetition, anaphora, and a constant movement between the syntax of everyday speech and that of lyric. Here's Fred in an interview with Open House editor Housten Donham talking about song & music:ĭonham: The most immediate element I’m impressed by in 'The Feel Trio' is sound. Fred is the author of numerous books of theory, including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition as well as several books of poetry including The Feel Trio, a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. Fred is currently professor in Performance Studies at NYU. The poet, critic & theorist Fred Moten provides the song list for Tuesday, February 26 at Songs for Listening.
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