The Book of Frank Songs for the Unborn Second Baby Rowell elicits Moten’s thoughts on

Rowell elicits Moten’s thoughts on the relation of his poetry to theory

"—Anselm Berrigan

during the fever pitch of his political exile from his homeland of Morocco which he fled

Cees Nooteboom

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The Book of Frank Songs for the Unborn Second Baby Rowell elicits Moten’s thoughts onCAConrad A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry. Beguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he grows from his troubled childhood into an adult travesty of the ostensibly straight family man in a male dominated world. Along the way, he navigates a series of darkly comic situations,