Speculation / guest poetry and fiction editors, Ed Pavlić and Ivelisse Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael), editor.

Rodriguez, Ivelisse, editor.

Series:

Boston Review / Forum Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination in literature.

Speculative poetry, American.

Speculative fiction, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, [2023]

Summary:

How can the speculative imagination help us build a better world? At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of financial capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination. By rejecting dominant ideas about what is possible, speculation empowers us to plot new paths to a more just world. Creative works range over violence and healing, memory and erasure, and alternative worlds, while essays span the meaning of land and community in the African diaspora, Octavia Butler's speculative fiction, and the ethics of the far future. Taken together, these works suggest that speculation is ultimately about our relationships with each other-as one contributor puts it, "what they have been, what they are, and most important, what they could be."

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Editor's Note

Another Future Is Possible

The Origin of Cow Therapy

Two Poems

Unleashing Nightmares: Octavia Butler's Heart of Darkness

Exodus

Saint Lillie

The New Moral Mathematics

Cassandra Data

The God Gene

Footage of Benjamin, the Last Living Tasmanian Tiger-1935, Colorized

It's a Thing

Cat of Nine Tails

An Island Without Sea

Little Rock Squawk or Perseverance at the Pond

Post-Literature

Angels of History

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781946511775

1946511773

OCLC:

1399168829