All the Rage

All the Rage is a poetry collection about everyday pleasure and about racism in the United States as an ongoing condition. It is set in a period marked both by repeated police violence and by a surge of artistic creativity.

At its center is the series "Living in the Abattoir," which takes place in an alternate world that still feels familiar. There, people of color live in an abattoir as both workers and meat.

The collection looks at contemporary life in the USA from several angles: being Black, being an immigrant, being a woman, and being queer.

The title carries two meanings at once. It points to anger at systemic violence that continues, and it also points to the frivolity of something that is, perhaps only for a while, trending.