IN/SOMNIA The Descent of Alette The Black Unicorn is a

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who

June Jordan’s generous body of poetry is distilled and curated to represent the very best of her works

Japanese suffering body after World War II

along with 80 pages of previously uncollected material

currently writing a dissertation about slavery and race in early modern European epics

IN/SOMNIA The Descent of Alette The Black Unicorn is aEtel Adnan The reader quickly notices that Adnan refrains from following the traditional subject, verb, object sentence patterns and invents semantic and lexical items throughout her book. Sometimes, Adnan creates an auditory effect by adding vowels to words like feever and stoooory. Other times, her words are separated by slashes, hyphens, brackets, asterisks, and question marks or are followed by arrows and colons rather than dashes Adnans use of