Sounding body: Anthony McNeill, or Poetry as fugitive practice

Abstract

I tend to describe joy as this experience of transformation or release from the constraint or costume of the individual or the subject [ … ] I think it ’ s about floating, it ’ s about being nothing and being everything at the same time; this sense of the self disappearing in the context of the vastness of the earth, the ocean, the sky, the land. That kind of joy is always about self-dissolution, escape. The vanishing line of the maroon coincides with that of the magician: a ‘ beyond ’ of the visible which is also a beyond of colonial reality, a projection of a world that is both past and to come.