Dope Calisthenics Author|Tracy Moore mess is a unit of

mess is a unit of measure

but it is also both gorgeous and familiar

" - Samiya Bashir

and letters which share all the gossip and

and recognizes the local as inseparable from the global

Dope Calisthenics Author|Tracy Moore mess is a unit ofSylvia Jones's sophomore collection examines the pressure exerted on working class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market's endless demand for performance. The poems move through Baltimore, television, retail language, protest remnants, and borrowed speech, tracking how public feeling hardens into product and how survival becomes a style others learn to consume. Class aspiration and class entrapment, the theater of mobility, and