D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry

DS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press, Columbia University Press, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications, 2006), The Bloods (Shearsman Books, 2011), and Duppies (Commune Editions, 2019).