The following correspondence between Brian Alsup and Kiese Laymon took station during the week of August 31,2015. As John Callahan once wrote of the decades-long exchange between Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison in Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters, it is “the bounty of a rare and spontaneous friendship in which each taps into the deepest experience of each other.” Together, and Alsup and Laymon reckon with black adore,liberation, and shouldering the weight of white terror in America.
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