Jameka Williams’s American Sex Tape™ is a triumph of a debut. Part cultural criticism, part self-investigation, Williams defies genre convention. Her poems burst onto the page with purpose, veracity, tenacity, and the self-assuredness of a long-established literary dynamo. I was humbled to parse questions from my own curiosity and unknowing, and I was grateful for Williams’s
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For all the chaos of which he seems singularly capable, the ex-boyfriend remains a strangely underrepresented character in literature. We might have Gatsby, Baldwinâs Giovanni, any number of Emma Bovaryâs paramours (if they qualify), but I can rattle off twice as many charismatic fictional cats, and almost as many pigs.
But along comes Brontez Purnell with his new â novel, is it? Linked stories? Letâs settle on
hurricane. This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense.