Book cover for purplish, a work of literary criticism examining anger in American poetry through the lens of BIPOC and QTPOC poets who engage with negativity, frustration, and distress. The book challenges the notion of a culturally neutral rationale for “purple” regions in America, tracing how anger has been systematically erased from our collective understanding of national heritage.
The cover image was created by pressing physical type into a blend of red and blue kinetic sand. The resulting impression of letterforms serves as a striking metaphor for the volatile terrain of potential violence, conflict, and distrust that runs through the book’s central arguments.
- Designer
- Anna Jordan
