{"product_id":"i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always","title":"I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinnesota Book Award winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of \u003ci\u003eSho\u003c\/i\u003e (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and \u003ci\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/i\u003e (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create singular, multiplicitous texts that defy neat categorization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough AfroFuturistic exploration of these techniques, Kearney presents a sustained consideration of precarious Black subjectivity, cultural production as self-defense, the transhistoric emancipatory logics of the preposition over, Anarcho-Black temporal disruption, and seriocomic meditations on the material and metaphysical nature of shadow. Engaging a rich history of visual poetics, \u003ci\u003eI Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always\u003c\/i\u003e almost predicts its endurance as a visionary work of genius.","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52346279461080,"sku":"9798891060128","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_713a3d91-3fd9-4e46-a88a-79a331aed96d.jpg?v=1788298271","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/i-imagine-i-been-science-fiction-always","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}