No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body Denise Riley Building with the narrative quality

Building with the narrative quality of a novel

to further highlight the singular printed culture of an era

and Christian Wolff

Part aesthetic treatise ("a poem is not going to give precise directions")

No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body Denise Riley Building with the narrative qualityAsiya Wadud Part transcript, part transmission, these poems explore the intelligence of the body, especially the body under duress. As Tina Campt has put it: 'Asiya Wadud is a weaver of magical syllables. In her hands, language has weft and warp, words have intricate texture, and sentences unravel and reassemble as tangled webs of gold. In No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body, her sentences enfold black feminism in verse. They