Maroon Choreography : Duke University Press : 9781478013341 : 1478013346 : 27 Aug 2021 : "Maroon Choreography is a philosophical performance in Black study. Comprised of three sections of poems and a lyrical essay, the book is written in an undisciplined tradition of Black radical thought. Fahima Ife's poems and essay question multiple ecologies in Southern Louisiana: its fraught climate, the toxicity of the air, water and soil, the continued uprooting of trees, the disappearance of the swamp, ecological ruin and its impact on life. Maroon Choreography feels alongside Fred Moten's theory of Blackness and considers Black sociality, or matters of coming together now in the 21st century. The book's central ideas emerge through the airy life force of the poems themselves. The poems question the ecological afterlives of 17th century Black fugitivity. The poems presuppose the afterlives of fugitivity are not a haunting or memory (as historical conceptions of time are generally understood), b