This book is seeped in social history, fact and trivia, art and artifacts surrounding the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets – absinthe.

Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Serpentine.