I NEED MUSIC

Author: Anaïs Duplan

Publisher: Action Books (2021)

In his fourth book, Anaïs Duplan reinvents ekphrasis as an act of devotion to art as both the sense-archive and future tense of Black embodiment. In this vibrant thinkspace (where thinking is singing), Duplan hosts a vivid community of Black musicians, performers, painters, photographers, poets, critics, filmmakers and video artists, even a chorus of lovelorn chatroom denizens. I NEED MUSIC hosts the lyric re-arrivals of unquiet pasts, enacts a haptic intimacy with the present, and vibrates with the immanence of Black, queer futures.

The book also has a companion site that can be viewed alongside it. The companion site houses the notes, acknowledgments, responses, miscellany, etc. that made I Need Music possible.