apparitions

<span><p><span><b>Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry.</b></span></p><p><span>Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha’s </span><span><i>apparitions (nines) </i></span><span>in its “charred golden minidress,” ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of  “niners,” a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines, </span><span>apparitions (nines)</span><span> is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges from—and far surpasses—constraint.</span></p></span>