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Hanif Abdurraqib thinks about music the way most people think about food, which is to say that it is indispensable — vital, even — to his being on this earth. Through these essays, Abdurraqib articulates what we hear in music and plays it back to us as if it's our own voice: strange, surprising, but undoubtedly ours." —27th Letter Books, Detroit MI
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