Book Works, 2024, softcover, 20 x 14 cm
In thermodynamics and physics, the ideal black body is a theoretical object that absorbs and emits all incident radiation. No such object actually exists, though a few things come close. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, author and poet Andrew E. Colarusso takes this concept as the guiding principle his ‘Black Body Index’. Told in a mercurial constellation of fragments that move between memoir, poetry, and thermodynamic theory, the book inspects the perception of an ideal black life and refutes it, insisting on the freedom to live beyond the demands of an enforced objecthood.
