Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters we know and the ones that hide behind racism, sexism, and violence, resulting in poems that are both comic and cosmic.

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Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters we know and the ones that hide behind racism, sexism, and violence, resulting in poems that are both comic and cosmic.

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Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

by Brandon O'Brien
Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

by Brandon O'Brien

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Overview

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters we know and the ones that hide behind racism, sexism, and violence, resulting in poems that are both comic and cosmic.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781953736048
Publisher: Interstellar Flight Press
Publication date: 08/20/2021
Pages: 84
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Brandon O'Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the inaugural Ignyte Award for Best Speculative Poetry. His work is published in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.

Table of Contents

Hastur Asks for Donald Glover's Autograph

because who she is matters more than her words

Cthylla Asks for Drake's Autograph

the repossession of skin

The Sailor-Boys

Lovecraft Thesis #1

postcard 20xx, where there are no dirges

hunting dog

Hastur Asks for Lord Kitchener's Autograph

the lagahoo speaks for itself

Lovecraft Thesis #2

That Business They Call Utopia, Part Two

Birth, Place

Cthulhu Reminisces Upon The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody's Autographs

postcard 20xx, of our garden and beach

Cthulhu Asks for Kendrick Lamar's Autograph

Young Poet Just Misses Getting MF DOOM's Autograph

Kanye West's Internet Bodyguard Asks Hastur to Put Away the Phone

the one

Cthylla Asks for J. Cole's Autograph

Lovecraft Thesis #3

The Metaphysics of a Wine, in Theory and Practice

time, and time again

tar baby

That Business They Call Utopia, Part Three

Lovecraft Thesis #4

Lovecraft Thesis #5

That Business They Call Utopia, Part One

drop some amens

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