Boy with Thorn (Pitt Poetry Series)

Boy with Thorn (Pitt Poetry Series)

Winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize

Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creationâ€”the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himselfâ€”confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of Pittsburgh Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of Pittsburgh Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-30
Format	Kindle eBook

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