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Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive
A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author In his...
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A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author
In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways structural anti-Black violence has shaped his inheritance, and grapples with the question of how to know--and mourn--the kin he was never able to meet. webster is particularly drawn to his grandfather Reginald, who worked for years as a Pullman porter, who was denied rest while his labor enabled rest for others, and who died without receiving a pension before webster was born. Returning to the figures of Reginald and the train, webster explores the relationship between comportment and confinement, speaking in tongues in the Pentecostal church, the ancestral meeting place of dreams, his fraught relationship with his mother, and moments with his own child. Throughout, webster also reflects on nonbiological kinship, tethering his and his predecessors' lives to those of several historical Black figures--Harriet Jacobs, John Henry, Henry "Box" Brown, and Henry Dumas, a writer who was killed by New York City police while riding the subway. Attempting to exhaust the possibilities of the sentence and the grammar of anti-Blackness, webster riffs and rails on the debris within reach. Part elegy, part archival detective story, and part visual poem, Without Terminus is a philosophically rigorous and deeply moving text that takes us beyond the archive of loss.Author: Chaun Webster
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.53w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781644453926
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2026
Booklist 06/01/2026
About the Author
Work by chaun webster has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Angel City Review, Obsidian, The Rumpus, Social Text, and Tilted House. His books Gentry!fication and Wail Song each won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry.
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