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Miss Settl
Miss Settl | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
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Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard's debut collection of poems, MissSettl. In MissSettl, is a funny, joyful, and spiteful debut collection of seriously playful poems; they carry on with impish provocation, engagement, and mourning for what has been done to our living practices. These poems lampoon rigged games of common sense, syntax, and citizenship to expose the mechanics of what Americans have become and what they might be freed into after the end of capitalism and gender, and race, and money, and property. MissSettl confronts what's in the way of love; it disrupts what limits our potential.
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Wild poetry that feels very now, current day, but also, who knows, could last and last.

Everything is written as though keeping an eye on the internet, and it embraces media in many forms, filled with references, song lyrics, intentionally mangled quotes, which are noted in the acknowledgement. It makes the material feel rich and alive. Hilliard is unafraid to be experimental and ambitious!

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Taylor
Miss Settl | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard

& eff you‘re trying hard not to hurt anyone
but yourself & yourself is super shit @ it
than i , 2 , have been beating back the green
with you , allalong , furrowed round joy‘s means .
I am so here ! So here to hav you here ! H!appy

how I am 2 tellya , about Happiness . Eff you
haven‘t yet heard of happiness it‘s only bc

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Miss Settl | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard

Sometimes these damages are delivered only to save ,
only to teach , only to demonstrate how love comes back in , always ,
to where it always was , bit by bit.

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Miss Settl | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard

who doesn‘t love a good war ? well perhaps
those getting shot . but then— who doesn‘t
love a good warflik ? an opportunity tew get
choked out then choked up . eyes water .
eyes always water . Nickelodeons , some of
the first American theaters , could not show
certain films for fear of riot. & aint tht luv?