Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom by Felix, Camonghne
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom by Felix, Camonghne

Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal....
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Author: Camonghne Felix
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom by Felix, Camonghne

Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom

$85.99 $44.57
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom by Felix, Camonghne

Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom

$85.99 $44.57
Author: Camonghne Felix
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal.

"In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance--an instrument for creating a world rooted in care, community, and radical possibility."--Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow

Over the past decade, Camonghne Felix has been at the center of American politics, working in strategy, communications, and as a speechwriter. Throughout it all, she has maintained her unwavering belief in language's foundational revolutionary potential, outside of its deployment for legislative and political ends. In this groundbreaking work of nonfiction, she argues that Black radical poetic traditions model an ethical code and overcome entrenched structures of patriarchy and paternalism, inventing a new form that examines the historical and legislative, and the personal and poetic.

Felix draws on stories from her life in campaigns and the decisions she has had to make: preparing speeches for candidates, responding to harassment, recruiting staff. She recounts her moving personal history--accompanying her mother, a lawyer, to court, and her father, a participant in the Grenadian revolution of 1983, to protests--as well as her coming-of-age being schooled in a wider tradition of Black radical thinkers, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Audre Lorde.

Through rupture, rhythm, and a refusal of politics as usual, Let the Poets Govern encourages us to hold ourselves to the standards of our highest ideals and embraces our shared humanity.

Author: Camonghne Felix
Publisher: One World
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.88w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593242148


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2026
Booklist 02/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2025

About the Author
Camonghne Felix, poet, essayist and former political communications strategist, is the author of Dyscalculia (One World) and Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books), which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, Poetry Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and elsewhere.
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