Join us on
Sunday, February 8 at
4pm to celebrate the launch of
Nazareth Hassan’s Slow mania (Futurepoem, 2025) with readings by Hassan,
Philip Kenner,
Elliot Reed,
Benedict Nguyễn, and
Charles Theonia.
Slow mania was selected for publication by Futurepoem guest editors Gabriela Jáuregui, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and Shiv Kotecha. Using fluid prose, sardonic poetry, textural photography, and sprawling performance scores,
Slow mania is a psychogeographical text that weaves a portrait of the complications of self-acceptance. The text follows multiple unnamed characters, all of whom narrate the inner life of the space and people around them as they navigate toxic cityscapes, breathless relationships, public violence, and indiscriminate release. Alienation becomes a guiding light, leading them to richer versions of themselves.
The program is presented as part of
that that, which transforms CARA into an expanded bookstore environment. In the weeks preceding
our spring exhibition of the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s (1928–2011) personal art collection, we present a series of book launches, readings, and conversations shaped by the poetic force that animates Glissant’s chapter “That That” in his book
Poetics of Relation.