The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast
The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast
Marc Anthony Richardson
Marc Anthony Richardson
In The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast, seven dissidents, victims of police violence, orchestrate a strange and insidious agenda, as pangs of conscience compel one of them to see beyond the self. The book is a single-sentence, novel poem narrated by the dead, referring to each chapter’s protagonist in the second person. With no beginning or end, like a serpent eating its tail, these character studies bleed into each other, interspersed by the voices and the thoughts of each actor: you.
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, Poetry
2021
About Marc Anthony Richardson
Philadelphia, PA
Marc Anthony Richardson is the author of Year of the Rat, winner of an American Book Award and a Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and Messiahs, a Big Other Book Award finalist. His forthcoming book, The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast (Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive Press), won a Creative Capital Award, a Sachs Program Grant for Arts Innovation from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Artistic Practitioner Fellowship from Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. He also received a PEN America grant, a Hurston/Wright Foundation fellowship, and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Art Omi, and Rhodes University in South Africa. His work has been published in Conjunctions, Callaloo, Black Warrior Review, and many others. He has taught creative writing at UPenn and Rutgers, and currently teaches at Stony Brook University.
Marc Anthony Richardson is the author of Year of the Rat, winner of an American Book Award and a Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and Messiahs, a Big Other Book Award finalist. His forthcoming book, The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast (Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive Press), won a Creative Capital Award, a Sachs Program Grant for Arts Innovation from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Artistic Practitioner Fellowship from Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. He also received a PEN America grant, a Hurston/Wright Foundation fellowship, and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Art Omi, and Rhodes University in South Africa. His work has been published in Conjunctions, Callaloo, Black Warrior Review, and many others. He has taught creative writing at UPenn and Rutgers, and currently teaches at Stony Brook University.