![]() Granting the event a deeper profundity through the interplay of enjambment and parenthesis, the poem pushes us to ponder the appositional relation between making, doing, and having-to readdress the questions that Rodney King put forward. “can you make what we already (do | you remember/how did the people) / have? ” Turning back the reader to revisit the past, the lines hover over historical fact, using insinuation to rarefy the fixedness of the LA riots. “that’s what rodney asked about, ” declares the first line of “fortrd.fortrn, ” the inaugural piece of the collection. Fred Moten’s sixth collection of poetry, The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2014), begins by immersing the reader in the space of its intricate poetics. ![]()
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