Praise for Mental Voodoo

“In Mental Voodoo treffen präkoloniale, genderfluide westafrikanische Traditionen auf queere Fragen der Gegenwart – eine großartige Lektüreerfahrung, vielsprachlich, vielsinnlich, vielsinnig.”

—Marie Luise Knott, Lyrikempfehlungen 2024

“Rimbaud’s idea of a ‘systematic derangement of the senses’ is put to work in the poems of Logan February. There is so much texture, movement and sound evoked in their poems that the reader may sense overwhelm—the trick is to soften into a new logic, to understand we are experiencing a voice with a deep memory, one concerned with beauty and trauma of the body and the land. As February puts it in one stunning poem titled “At Prophetstown”: Here we are, walking / through the ghosts who first tended / the land. From my broken country, I came // here. Histories at once without / and within me. Logan February is a rare generational talent. Witness it.”

—Raymond Antrobus

“Bold and fiercely defiant worship of the black, queer body. Edgy and vibrant, this is layered and deeply conceptual poetry with confessional intones and fatalistic intents.”

—Dami Ajayi

“Eine starke und bildkräftige Stimme singt, schreit, flüstert, schluchzt und spottet aus diesen Gedichten, die betörend sprachmagisch sind. Sie verdient, gehört und gelesen zu werden.”

—Beate Tröger, Deutschlandfunk

Mental Voodoo (Translated by Christian Filips with Peter Dietze)

bilingual collection of poems in German translation

2024

Engeler Verlage/Poesie Dekolonie (Schupfart, Switzerland)