The Breathers is an attempt to experiment with ways to document both the suppression of breath caused by capitalism, and the liberation of breath, or, the mere act of breathing as a form of political resistance to those forces that confront our bodies with what cannot be said, what cannot be seen, and what cannot be done.
A necessarily collaborative project, where authored voices exist in chorus with other poets – from Africa and the Americas - who have given voice to how breath has and continues to be suppressed and exploited, while opening up potentialities and promises for liberation that might emerge from our differentiated yet collective breathing.
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Size: 125mm x 195mm
Pages: 80pp (plus cover)
Printing: blue, black and white
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-0672227-8-9
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