DeeSoul Carson Joins Alice James Books with Debut Collection, The Laughing Barrel
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DeeSoul Carson Joins Alice James Books with Debut Collection, The Laughing Barrel
Alice James Books will publish The Laughing Barrel in April 2027.
On The Laughing Barrel, Alice James Executive Director and Publisher Carey Salerno says: “Carson's debut mesmerizes us with its finely-tuned music, rich mythos, and extraordinarily powerful straight talk. The concept of the laughing barrel as a container for Black joy and its relationship to oppressive power structures now and during Jim Crow is palpable. Flush with formally expressive poems that draw from the infinite wealth of Blackness, these poems sink into us, texturally, becoming our bones and having always been our bones. Let there be something to redeem us, states Carson, who examines the utter and tedious endlessness of White want, asking what we stand for and what is standing in our way.”
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DEESOUL CARSON is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. His work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from the NYU MFA program, The Watering Hole, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com
