Perspectives by Incongruity

First of the Year

By: Benj DeMott

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Paperback | 15 January 2012

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ÿÿÿÿ Perspectives by Incongruity's approach to changing times is marked by diversity and faith in "perspectives by incongruity." Black authors (and Black Atlantic views) shape the work's movements of mind. It is fresh, not politically correct. Contributors such as Amiri Baraka, Wesley Brown, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Chuck D, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Eugene Goodheart, Richard Hoggart, John Leland, Philip Levine, Staughton Lynd, Kanan Makiya, Greil Marcus, Charles O'Brien, Diane di Prima, Aram Saroyan, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, A.B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Robert Farris Thompson, David Waldstreicher, and Armond White ensure quality. Insights flow from interesting minds but also from juxtapositions.

ÿÿÿÿ Perspectives by Incongruity is worldly-the "Trips" section includes stories from Haiti, South Africa, and Indonesia. This volume has a range of vital responses to the revolutionary wave in the Middle East. But it doesn't slight history in the making in the U.S. Distinguished historian Lawrence Goodwyn opens the volume by examining challenges confronting Barack Obama. There are sharp critiques of Obama's critics on the left and a fractious yet deeply mindful roundtable on the meaning of the Tucson killings.

ÿÿÿÿ An analysis of small, class-bound differences between today's "hipsters" and "progressives" works like an answerÿ record to John Leland's original angle on an earlier generation's conflict sparked by Bob Dylan's '60s rock move. Contributors find meaning in hip hop and Afropop, mambo and John Coltrane, Sun Ra and Arcade Fire, Berlio and Bruce Springsteen.

Industry Reviews

-Arresting, fractious . . . At once contrarian, ambitiously inclusive and wide-ranging [First of the Year] has attracted an extended crew of intelligent, passionate, polemical writers.-

--American Book Review

-First is a cultural and intellectual publication that is singularly lively, and no less strange . . . It has been compared to Partisan Review . . . But it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity.-

--Inside Higher Education

"Arresting, fractious . . . At once contrarian, ambitiously inclusive and wide-ranging [First of the Year] has attracted an extended crew of intelligent, passionate, polemical writers."

--American Book Review

"First is a cultural and intellectual publication that is singularly lively, and no less strange . . . It has been compared to Partisan Review . . . But it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity."

--Inside Higher Education

"Arresting, fractious . . . At once contrarian, ambitiously inclusive and wide-ranging [First of the Year] has attracted an extended crew of intelligent, passionate, polemical writers."

--American Book Review

"First is a cultural and intellectual publication that is singularly lively, and no less strange . . . It has been compared to Partisan Review . . . But it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity."

--Inside Higher Education

"Arresting, fractious . . . At once contrarian, ambitiously inclusive and wide-ranging [First of the Year] has attracted an extended crew of intelligent, passionate, polemical writers."

--American Book Review

"First is a cultural and intellectual publication that is singularly lively, and no less strange . . . It has been compared to Partisan Review . . . But it may be time to recognize and respect First for what it is in its own right: a journal of demotic intelligence, alive to its own times, with insights and errors appropriate to those times, making it worth the price of perplexity."

--Inside Higher Education

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