Lawson,Shayla

Poetry. Each poem of I THINK I’M READY TO MEET FRANK OCEAN riffs on a Frank Ocean song, paying homage to the man but also investigating oceans, The Ocean, and the similarity between heartbreak and break beats by blending Frank Ocean’s musical catalog with personal narrative and social critique. I THINK I’M READY TO MEET FRANK OCEAN builds upon historicized representations of Ocean’s career in ekphrasis, carefully examining the intent of each composition as a metaphoric parallel to Black American legibility.