Ban en Banlieue Nasleep of the British Empire

of the British Empire

its brightness measured by the darkness it casts

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling

for D’Amérique

" as Alice Notley noted

Ban en Banlieue Nasleep of the British EmpireBhanu Kapil Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the night, Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence, becoming all matter soot, meat, diesel oil and forceas she loops the city with the energy of global weather. Derived from performances in India,