Music For Exile Virgil Abloh pain and pleasure

pain and pleasure

Do not leave in a cot/ crib

Anzac biscuits and Lamingtons – to lesser known dishes such as Queensland blue pumpkin soup

New York (2016)

To obsess well is to realize that the lovely person we sketch in our heads is our creation: a creation that says more about us than it does about them

Music For Exile Virgil Abloh pain and pleasureWind at their back, ear to the ground, the poems in Music For Exile beckon a mythical assemblage, of loss that is personal and historical, intimate and shared. From walking up Canefield River to hearing a thief on the stairs in Philadelphia, from dredging the voices of New Englands enslaved to confronting familial grief, these poems pass with the ache, that ironic hunger for home that exists when home holds violence and cruelty. Nehassaiu deGannes