White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Merlina Acevedo I heard a powerfully distinctive

I heard a powerfully distinctive voice

some of which will appear in the forthcoming Uninvited Guests and Debts

an existential questioning of what it means to be a self

The name is the key to poems concerned with Chick's death

He risks longer verse forms

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Merlina Acevedo I heard a powerfully distinctiveWhite Other is a strange hybrid beast part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working class other within neo liberal culture. White Other is memoir remixed, cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled, socially