Year of the Ox
'Andrew Brooks’s Year of the Ox is a constellation of images that chart the movement of history, not with the logic of linear progress but the dialectic of historical materialism. The poem takes what has been and flashes it together with the now, with blackberries, garden spiders, broccoli pasta and much else.
'Through this constellation we see, in silhouette, the historical shape of capitalism and its necessary mutation, imperialism. In a time of "No/politics but the politics of real/estate", the two long poems in this book offer us something rare: political poetry that moves, and demands movement.' – André Dao
Andrew Brooks is a writer, researcher, editor, and artist. He works as a Lecturer in Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Media, UNSW.
He is a co-editor of the publishing collective Rosa Press and with Astrid Lorange, is one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate.
