The Malevolent Volume
Monthly Membership
Cancel anytime!
Memberships will renew every month
One credit every month on renewal
You can spend 1 credit every month to get an audiobook
“These are strong poems, showcasing a range of moods and affects. Sometimes punctuated, otherwise so neatly joined they don’t need it. Sometimes gentle, in other moments, wielding fury’s high bright tone.”
Literary Hub
WINNER OF THE 2021 CLMP FIRECRACKER AWARD FOR POETRY • FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD IN GAY POETRY • A WASHINGTON POST BEST POETRY COLLECTION OF 2020 • AN NPR FAVORITE BOOK OF 2020 • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW AND NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A BUZZFEED MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020 • A LITERARY HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020
THE MALEVOLENT VOLUME EXPLORES THE MYTHS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF BLACK BEING, ON A CONTINUUM BETWEEN THE MONSTROUS AND THE SUBLIME.
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counter-violent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.
“Reed blends intersectional politics and bodily hunger in precise, thorny language.”—New York Times
Praise
Ratings & Reviews
Review guidelines0% of listeners recommend it of readers recommend it
Be the first to rate this audiobook Be the first to rate this book
No one has rated or reviewed The Malevolent Volume yet. Listened to it? Would you recommend it? No one has rated or reviewed The Malevolent Volume yet. Read it? Would you recommend it?
Rate and review this book, just like in the Downpour app.
Listened to this one? Read this one?
Share what you thought and help others decide.
Sign in to write a reviewYour account can't post reviews right now.
No written reviews yet
0 listeners have rated this audiobook, but no one has written about it yet. Tell others what you thought.
Sign in to write a review