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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
Brand University of Pittsburgh Press
Manufacturer University of Pittsburgh Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2015-09-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780822963813

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