Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic's Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a 'hybrid sound system' (complete with 'records,' 'tracks,' 'decks,' and 'channels'), expertly curated to convey the complexity of Blackness in the Americas. In this ancestral and cultural excavation, Jive conducts archival and oral-history research into his family's connections to Jamaica, Panama, Brazil, and Cuba to explore the impact of culture,...