In the Key of Decay bitter scrapbooks

scrapbooks

including his childhood friends

trace the remarkable life and career of a true legend

Character designs for Marvel’s The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron

with such figures as the former slave Toussaint Louverture

In the Key of Decay bitter scrapbooksTriangulated against the backdrop of a deteriorating world, In the Key of Decay pushes past borders both real and imagined to attend to those failed by history. Attuned to scientific racism, systemic medical failures, and climate change, Em Dials poems incisively carve out space for interrogation. Their place finding and place making is often surprising, centring care and desire, where Dials speaker calls for someone to call me what I am and for that