Douglas Kearney - Indelible Ink

Performed at Indelible Ink show on February 22, 2011.

"In my first book, Fear, Some, there's a poem called 'Live/Evil'—a slight titular variation of the Miles Davis album Live-Evil. It is one of my first attempts to do what Moten articulates even though I hadn't read Moten yet and spoke mostly of poems attempting to enact something of their subject matter.

I wrote the poem because a friend, the poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson, suggested so after I told him I smashed all of my Miles Davis CDs. I did this, I explained, because of Pearl Cleage's essay, "Mad At Miles, " in which she suggests destroying his LPs, cassettes and CDs in protest of his abuse of women."

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