senakirfa A.
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“The First Sun is no ordinary thesis. It is a brilliant account of the way in which art can touch us, transform us – in this case by the impact of a single poem. senakirfa A. offers us a deep reading of Audre Lorde’s poem Outside as A. impressively contextualizes the impact of Lorde’s words. With rigorously researched literary references A. develops arguments about the location of the self, how body and mind are indistinguishable, how they are framed by external forces. She demonstrates how poetry can rewrite the self and liberate it from social constrains. In this way, following Édouard Glissant’s suggestion, she traces how her thinking journeys from an internal ‘dimensionless space’ out into the world: into her father’s attic and the public library that her mother introduced her to at a young age. In a world saturated with fractured bits of information that pull us away from ourselves, A. impressively draws our attention back to the potential of poetry to regenerate ourselves, make ourselves anew, whole, with every word we write.”— written by Jasper Coppes
The First Sun was self-published by senakirfa A., in collaboration with Jung Yeon Kim, in 2022 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The First Sun was risoprinted, designed, typeset, and bound by Jung Yeon Kim, and was printed in an edition of 40 copies. Currently, The First Sun is sold out.
Click here to read an excerpt of The First Sun