NourbeSe Philip: I do get a sense every so often of the work that Zong! has been doing. Philip Metres: What does it mean for you to have Zong! recognized as such a pivotal work-one that has resonated with both readers and writers, and given birth to many other books interested in the parallel ongoing work of documentary poetics, archival unearthing, and attending to the trauma of those subject to the slave trade and other imperial and colonial depredations? To commemorate the occasion, Philip and Metres struck up the following email exchange about the book. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) not only received the most votes but was the runaway favorite. We published the longlist and then invited readers to vote on their favorites. Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice.
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