Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON Tisa Bryants Unexplained Presence readers are spectators of misensc in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic recreation Bryants prose traverses like a tracking shot through John Schlesingers Darling Patricia Rozemas Mansfield Park Virginia Woolfs giving voice to characters whom have otherwise been structurally silenced. As Pulitzerprize winning author Margo Jefferson aptly points out in her afterword Tisa Bryant doesnt merely write about film she is an a anthropologist and a criticartist. Since its original publication with Leon Works in 2007 Unexplained Presence has been foundational among poets scholars and film critics and with this publication Tisa Bryants legacy as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature is preserved.