Goda-Blake
Alexander Thomas
Author & editor
agodablake@gmail.com
I’m a writer.
Before discipline, there was excess; after excess, inquiry.
My work moves between memoir, experiment, and criticism, asking how language can hold fracture without losing rigor.
Writing is how I think—through fragments, revision, and attention to what resists coherence. My work spans memoir, experimental nonfiction, poetry, and criticism, shaped by a commitment to honest risk.
The University of Michigan possesses the intellectual, financial, and institutional capacity to meaningfully address local homelessness, yet repeatedly chooses procedural caution and symbolic action over sustained responsibility.
The essay shows how abundance, when filtered through bureaucracy and risk aversion, becomes a mechanism for inaction rather than change.