The Blind Pig

the blind pig is an afro surrealist excavation of a gender queer blk millennial's formal introduction to their ancestral point of Mecca and No Return; the American South. In essayistic prose, this book weaves and unbraids the synapses of a blk American falling in and out of time.

ISBN-13: 9781945649325

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Not a Cult

Publication Date: 10-14-2019

Pages: 110

Product Dimensions: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.30d

Aziza Barnes is the winner of the 2015 Pamet River Prize; their first full length collection, i be but i ain't, is from YesYes Books, 2016. Their first chapbook, me Aunt Jemima & the nailgun, was the inaugural winner of the Exploding Pinecone Prize from Button Poetry. They are a Cave Canem Fellow, co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festivaland co-host of the podcast, The Poetry Gods. Aziza is a graduate of New York University, member of The Dance Cartel and participant in the 2016 Ojai Playwrights Conference. To be produced by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Barnes's playwriting debut, BLKS, marks the arrival of a truly original contemporary American voice.