{"product_id":"speculation-paperback","title":"Speculation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe world is always changing. But there are also inflection points in history when the world feels \u003ci\u003echanged\u003c\/i\u003e. Art has the prophetic power to imagine where we are going. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that in a world-historical moment of global upheaval and transformation, speculative literature and other futurist arts are enjoying a renaissance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e believes that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal. In this new anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays from renowned writers and newcomers, contributors share with readers their feats of imagining the past and future that help us better understand what it means to be present in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeculation can lead us to collectively imagine better futures, or better ways of understanding our past. Abolition, civil rights, and Black Lives Matter all speculate about a future free of racial violence, just as #MeToo imagines one free of gendered violence. In some of our most joyful private moments, we speculate about what will be delicious and pleasurable, about what notes will sound good played together on an instrument, about spirits and the afterlife, about what we wish a lover would say to us, about what aliens might be like if we ever met them. Such works of the speculative imagination are, thankfully, almost boundless, though we imagine them within the bounds of who we are and what we assume to be true about the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere will speculation lead us next?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Pavlic is the author of \u003ci\u003eLive at the Bitter End\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWho Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLet's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia and a Boston Review Arts Contributing Editor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez's short story collection, \u003ci\u003eLove War Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2019 PEN\/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is founder and editor of an interview series published in \u003ci\u003eCentro Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She is a Boston Review Arts Contributing Editor.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731970265151,"sku":"9781946511768","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/78907715304ba5e7925f24dfa1c8ec83.webp?v=1765130798","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/speculation-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}