White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Imtiaz Dharker from the loss of loved

from the loss of loved ones to communal and national wounds

By this last

Things are never still or static

that undeniable urge ‘to run barefoot/ downstairs// still drizzled with sex or soap/ to quarter persimmons

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Imtiaz Dharker from the loss of lovedWhite 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