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Inventorys

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A poetic documentation of imperial structures through the story of a shipwrecked Spanish trade vessel.   In this work of hybrid historiography, Sam Creely modulates the English sentence to map the ways anglophone imperial self-fashioning moves in and out of social coherence, investigating how syntactic requirements reflect colonial history and how the rules of language structure thought. Through scenes including intimate encounters with dye, fabric, and garments, Creely reveals the sexual and racial grammars of empire.  Inventorys takes as its point of departure the voyage, shipwreck, and eventual excavation of the Spanish trade vessel El Nuevo Constante. Animated by the image of sixty thousand pounds of dye bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico, this six-part poetic documentation follows the wreckage of the Constante linguistically, moving among early modern lexicography, and ultimately toward enmeshed histories of catalog, fabrication, and revision.  Inventorys is the winner of the 2022 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest, selected by Shane McCrae.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781632431639
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 106
  • Published:
  • April 23, 2025
  • Dimensions:
  • 229x152x11 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 178 g.
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Expected delivery: July 4, 2025

Description of Inventorys

A poetic documentation of imperial structures through the story of a shipwrecked Spanish trade vessel.   In this work of hybrid historiography, Sam Creely modulates the English sentence to map the ways anglophone imperial self-fashioning moves in and out of social coherence, investigating how syntactic requirements reflect colonial history and how the rules of language structure thought. Through scenes including intimate encounters with dye, fabric, and garments, Creely reveals the sexual and racial grammars of empire.  Inventorys takes as its point of departure the voyage, shipwreck, and eventual excavation of the Spanish trade vessel El Nuevo Constante. Animated by the image of sixty thousand pounds of dye bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico, this six-part poetic documentation follows the wreckage of the Constante linguistically, moving among early modern lexicography, and ultimately toward enmeshed histories of catalog, fabrication, and revision.  Inventorys is the winner of the 2022 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest, selected by Shane McCrae.

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