quenton baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. A Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, their current focus is Black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. They are the author of ballast. They live in Seattle, Washington.
ISBN: 9781642599480
Publication date: April 4, 2023
“Quenton Baker’s ballast is a beautiful, hard, and necessary book. Raging, electric, precise and elegiac. It is a lamentation in three parts. A brilliant refusal; a black perseverance." —Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Note
“ballast is erasure executed at the most exacting level. Erasure as excavation. Erasure as return. As in: return to the people what they are owed. Even when what they are owed is irrecoverable, though in these luminous [re]nderings, Baker gets us closer to beginning to understand how much has been lost, and returns us to ourselves, as the best poets tend to do.” —Marwa Helal, author of Ante Body
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