Wail Song

or wading in the water at the end of the world

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Black Ocean
Chaun Webster
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Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world

is a multi-form long poem that offers an extended contemplation on being that lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both rely on black abjection. Readers find themselves in the belly of the whale, and in that darkness, Wail Songasks readers how deep they are willing to wade in the water with blackness. The poems of Chaun Webster assume the world is not enough and is straining through each syllable, and with the end of the world in the rearview, they demand what we might do in blackened flesh with the time that remains.

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Chaun Webster, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry.  

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