by Rhys Langston Podell
“Minstrel Makeup Sex is a brilliant, complex, and wide-ranging social and political project that is brought to life by the sharp eye for both language and image that Langston possesses, the scope of references that populate the work so richly, and the radical lens to tie everything together without sacrificing tone or message.” — Hanif Abdurraquib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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Collecting 12 years of poems and art, Minstrel Makeup Sex is both an artful document in the Black radical tradition and a millennial meditation on the politics of multiracial identity. It is surrealist sendups of post-DEI American life, and it is acerbic wit that does not miss the forest of fascist power structures for the micro-aggressive trees. And beyond the mere polemic, the work of collected verse juxtaposes the quiet and contemplative to its transparent politics, locating where the personal, the historical, the postcolonial, the pop-cultural, and the technological meet in macaronic testimony. Indeed, Minstrel Makeup Sex is playful but dead-serious linguistic mutiny, at once a debut and retrospective for writer, musician, and visual artist Rhys Langston Podell.
Ships Mid-October.
by Rhys Langston Podell
“Minstrel Makeup Sex is a brilliant, complex, and wide-ranging social and political project that is brought to life by the sharp eye for both language and image that Langston possesses, the scope of references that populate the work so richly, and the radical lens to tie everything together without sacrificing tone or message.” — Hanif Abdurraquib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
*
Collecting 12 years of poems and art, Minstrel Makeup Sex is both an artful document in the Black radical tradition and a millennial meditation on the politics of multiracial identity. It is surrealist sendups of post-DEI American life, and it is acerbic wit that does not miss the forest of fascist power structures for the micro-aggressive trees. And beyond the mere polemic, the work of collected verse juxtaposes the quiet and contemplative to its transparent politics, locating where the personal, the historical, the postcolonial, the pop-cultural, and the technological meet in macaronic testimony. Indeed, Minstrel Makeup Sex is playful but dead-serious linguistic mutiny, at once a debut and retrospective for writer, musician, and visual artist Rhys Langston Podell.
Ships Mid-October.
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