{"product_id":"black-bell-9781556597008","title":"Black Bell","description":"\u003cb\u003eSweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's \u003ci\u003eBlack Bell \u003c\/i\u003econtinues an exploration of cataloging individual experience and collective memory. As Rollins sets out to resuscitate and embody the archive, we see a chorus of historical figures like Eliza Harris, Henry \"Box\" Brown, and Lear Green; readers can listen in as Phillis Wheatley takes a Turing test or venture through Dante's Inferno remixed with Wu-Tang Clan's \u003ci\u003e36 Chambers\u003c\/i\u003e. Poems travel across time and space, between the eighteenth century and futuristic fabulations, vibrating with fugitive frequencies, sounds of survival, and nerve-wracking notes tuned toward love and liberation. \u003ci\u003eBlack Bell\u003c\/i\u003e navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle, hidden and on display, allowing lyric language to become the material for fashioning wearable sculptures akin to Nick Cave's \"soundsuits.\" Integrating performance art practices, metalwork, and sonic, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bell\u003c\/i\u003e becomes multimedia meditation on freedom seeking, furthering the possibilities of both the page and the canvas of the poet's body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556597008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136","brand":"Alison C. Rollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43673008373941,"sku":"9781556597008","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_46606590-8a29-4ee3-a481-9b85326ab300.jpg?v=1709052838","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/black-bell-9781556597008","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}