Ain't Never Not Been Black Topaz Winters BUT ENOUGH is a sci-fi-flavored

BUT ENOUGH is a sci-fi-flavored exploration of the role that art and artists play in resisting authoritarianism

– Jennifer Sánchez

drawing them into adolescence

one that doesn’t truly feel like yours

Here we are in that lush reverberation of Black aliveness out of which he emerges and which he so stunningly attends

Ain't Never Not Been Black Topaz Winters BUT ENOUGH is a sci-fi-flavoredJavon Johnson, 2020 Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways. Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page, with poems that will encompass you. This is a book about blackness and survival, and how in America these are inseparable. In a world of individualism, who can