Caleb Femi: The Wickedest, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Wickedest
- Verlag:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 01/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374616618
- Artikelnummer:
- 11849832
- Umfang:
- 96 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 191 x 127 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 21.1.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024
"[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party." -Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie
An immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.
Welcome to the Wickedest, the longest running house party in the South London shoob scene, always held at an undisclosed inner-city spot. You better hope you have the address: this is for locals only.
Sweaty and cinematic, pulsing with rhythm and heat, every moment here-from one-on-one intimacies to the swell of the party's collective roar-is refracted in Caleb Femi's writing. Ingeniously blending conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, The Wickedest is a modern epic, told as a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out.
Femi, a multi-hyphenate sensation and the author of Poor , which was called "a landmark debut for British poetry" by The Guardian , is a generational storyteller and scene setter. But The Wickedest does more than tell the story of one party; Femi uses the experience of nightlife to document the broader contexts surrounding the shoobs-the marginalization of low-income communities of color, the red tape that bars those on the edges from already shrinking communal space. Still, the party goes on. The Wickedest is a respite and a reckoning, a community of desire, care, and resistance that carries on long past the night's end.
