Language After Death

travis - multidisciplinary artist, scholar, octogenarian, queer Vietnam vet, and frontman of legendary Chicago gospel industrial band ONO - unfurls decades of research and personal experience into a poetic and emotional history. 

Language After Death offers a nonlinear perspective of Black life and the institutional violence that has sought to degrade it. Using an explosive, chameleonic breakdown of language across prosaic and lyric registers, travis deconstructs the myths of the New World, from the Dum Diversas papal bull to the Natchez trace. 

Language After Death is not just unsettling and beautiful: it provides necessary context for understanding the politics of the 21st century. 

Author: travis
Publisher: Field Of Grass Design / American Dreams Records
Pages: 80pp
Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Notes: paperback, b/w
Edition: 200
Release Date: January 2026