apparitions: (nines)

Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Rahas invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry.

Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Rahas apparitions (nines) in its charred golden minidress, ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of  niners, a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges fromand far surpassesconstraint.