December 5: Will Alexander—Asia & Haiti
Presented by 192 Books, Will Alexander in conversation with Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough to discuss the 30th-anniversary second edition of his book Asia & Haiti (Litmus Press, 2024)
This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Thursday, December 5th at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited. RSVP for free here. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login required. A recording will be archived.
Books will be available for sale after the conversation.
Will Alexander—Asia & Haiti (2nd ed., Litmus Press, 2024)
In Asia & Haiti, Will Alexander’s poetry functions as syncretic engine—combusting Indigenous history, esoterica, and spiritual practice, with postcolonial criticism, political theory, and modern science—to generate a densely woven re-visioning of history. This 30th-anniversary second edition re-presents a classic book with new artwork by Alexander’s longtime collaborator, Byron Baker. It also includes a new preface by the author contextualizing the work within the present-day Tibetan liberation struggle and considerations of Haiti as a powerful symbol of resistance vis-à-vis “our contemporary political un-settlement.” “Asia & Haiti,” he writes, “takes up the tenor of continuing solar presence . . . far beyond calculable political fatigue, being alive as grammar via a living future.”
Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and musician. He has published over two dozen books in a variety of genres and has earned many honors and awards, including a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. Among his recent publications are a 30th-anniversary edition of Asia & Haiti; The Coming Mental Range; Refractive Africa, which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Divine Blue Light; and Charismatic Spirals.
Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough (b. Richmond, VA, April '91) is a substitute teacher in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Western (1080PRESS, 2023) and Object 7 ( ,a spirit loosely, ,bundled in a frame, ) (Futurepoem, 2024).