COMPOST READER 2

COMPOST READER 2The second volume of Compost Reader continues to espouse its vision of the world as an interconnected being, where all parts relate to one another. The act of composting becomes our new relational ontology. Composting is seen as a way of cultivating consciousness through questions instead of answers, and from uncertainty and doubt. Hydro memories, a talking lion, sounds that live in a snail shell, a dry swamp, a herbal medicine witch girl, ephemeral

The conversations span lifetimes

The title essay proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness "is" and includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life

we find ourselves recording with unmediated exhilaration that Gladman once again is mapping one of the most original and vital courses in contemporary literature

it must be studied

which prove integral to the freakaphonic constellations herein

Be a wit(h)ness to every single being

full of longing

MAX PORTER'S All of This Unreal Time takes this idea—the poetic concept of ‘perfect speech’—and turns it into a wild

what will it actually be like

to love of family

several different series

and frank talk