{"product_id":"without-terminus-untraining-an-archive-9781644453926","title":"Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewebster 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttempting 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, \u003ci\u003eWithout Terminus \u003c\/i\u003eis a philosophically rigorous and deeply moving text that takes us beyond the archive of loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chaun Webster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.53w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644453926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWork by chaun webster has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, \u003ci\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObsidian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Social Text, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Tilted House\u003c\/i\u003e. His books \u003ci\u003eGentry!fication\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWail Song\u003c\/i\u003e each won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chaun Webster \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48397212680349,"sku":"9781644453926","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7fda7851-8bb8-4db0-917b-4cf4d3c9bc47.jpg?v=1781076251","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/without-terminus-untraining-an-archive-9781644453926","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}