Ars Poeticas No Art Black struggle and Black joy

Black struggle and Black joy at the centre

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Ars Poeticas No Art Black struggle and Black joyJuliana Spahr During the time of an increasingly powerful alt right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times. In the six ars poeticas that Spahr writes, she sings of