Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays

Music and drama as weapons of productive destruction. This collection by prize-winning, massively influential literary star Joyelle McSweeney explodes the twinned and dangerous notions that images are pretty, and that they land predictably. Power struggles in all contexts and the driving ever-presence of a lexicon of puissance make this a bracing read, not for the faint of heart or mind.

From "Guadaloop":

Just inside the cutters’ pavilion
Just at the peak of the oxygen tent
Just on the inner li...