{"product_id":"the-rinehart-frames-paperback-softback-9781496225764","title":"The Rinehart Frames (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496225764","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCheswayo Mphanza (Author), Kwame Dawes (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496225764\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e126 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.2 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“In his electrifying debut, Mphanza presents a sustained project of ekphrasis and pastiche inspired by the work of African artists, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, and the life and death of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba. . . . This debut marks the arrival of a brilliant and intrepid voice.”-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Mphanza has assembled an archive from a dizzying array of sources, remixing input to create an astute study in intertextuality that is immediately personal and deeply engaged with art and African, American, and world history.”-Diego BÁez, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Mphanza's poetry is for sure African; it is also international, speaking to all continents and peoples. Good poetry transcends geographical borders.\"-L. Ali Khan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In his debut collection, the well-read Zambian poet samples artists and fuses forms, resulting in a remarkable conversation of influences, a homage.\"-Ernest Ogunyemi, \u003ci\u003eOpen Country\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and formally accomplished reworking of the cento in a collection that conjures the elegance of geometric theorems, while simultaneously revealing a capacious knowledge of, and deep engagement with, art, politics, Afrosporic issues, and the difficult condition of being human. A shamanistic archaeologist of the soul and its workings, Mphanza reassembles his collected fragments to offer us insights into our collective wisdoms, eschewing much that separates us. More than ever now, we need work such as this and, with ‘a craft wielded and willed,’ Mphanza is more than up to this difficult task.”-M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong!\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The inventiveness and elegance with which \u003ci\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/i\u003e weaves the imaginations of visual art, film, and literature in order to observe and absorb the experience of Blackness in the troubled past and unsettling present is nothing short of extraordinary. Cheswayo Mphanza has shaped a language attuned to race, violence, and the artist’s relentless search among the ruins for wisdom, truth, and beauty.”-Rigoberto GonzÁlez, author of \u003ci\u003eUnpeopled Eden\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the finest poetry debuts to appear in years. Virtuosic in voices and allusions; profound in its exploration of past and contemporary Black experience; expansive, from Zambia to the United States to those invisible spaces below and behind the world’s surfaces, in its range and concerns, \u003ci\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/i\u003e gathers poetry we badly need now, and will return to, as a touchstone, in the future.”-John Keene, author of \u003ci\u003eCounternarratives\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Cheswayo Mphanza’s ability to make sense of disparate subjects can only be compared to a musician working through chord changes, and he’s a skilled soloist. Whether guiding us through frames of film, sharpening the focus on paintings framed on display, illuminating the framing of political pain, or framing the beauty of silence, there’s music throughout.”-A. Van Jordan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cineaste\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Rinehart Frames\u003c\/i\u003e seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e with the film \u003ci\u003e24 Frames\u003c\/i\u003e by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems continue the conversations of the infinite possibilities of the imagination to dabble in, with, and out of history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword by Kwame Dawes    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame One    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Code of Hammurabi    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame Two    \u003cbr\u003e Frame Three   \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Getting Lost with Hayao Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame Four \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Lester Leaps In    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eII\u003cbr\u003e Frame Five    \u003cbr\u003e Frame Six    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Open Casket Body Double for Patrice Lumumba’\u003cbr\u003es Funeral    \u003cbr\u003e Notes toward a Biography of Henry Tayali    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIII\u003cbr\u003e Frame Seven\u003c\/i\u003e (with Director’\u003cbr\u003es Commentary*)    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaste of Cherry\u003c\/i\u003e (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame Eight\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Auteur Poetica    \u003cbr\u003e Djibril Diop MambÉ\u003cbr\u003ety’\u003cbr\u003es Scene Descriptions    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIV\u003cbr\u003e Frame Nine    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Stack of Shovels    43\u003cbr\u003e That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame Ten \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Amrita Sher-Gil Introductory Wall Texts    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eV\u003cbr\u003e Frame Eleven  \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Pastoral    \u003cbr\u003e Paean to Chikumbi    \u003cbr\u003e At David Livingstone’\u003cbr\u003es Statue    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrame Twelve  \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Dear Suzanne    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Attributions    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685416759576,"sku":"9781496225764","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-rinehart-frames-paperback-softback-9781496225764","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}