| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 89 pages) |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Conditions for a Southern Gothic -- I saw I dreamt two men -- One country -- Black iris -- Lord and chariot -- Ghazal for Emmett Till -- Carnal knowledge -- Mood indigo -- Swing low -- Vanitas with Negro boy -- King of shade, king of scorpions -- Full -- Little song -- Writing an elegy -- He who refuses does not repent -- Quiet please -- Modern ripple -- Southern Gothic -- Of the leaves that have fallen -- Crescendo -- Undiscovered genius of the Mississippi Delta -- Study in black -- A Southern wind -- This pair this marriage of two -- Do you feel me? -- Mood for love -- Faggot -- You are not Christ -- No Ararat -- Epitaph on a stone -- Black gentleman -- Take it easy -- Boy with thorn |
| Summary |
In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--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 himself--confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 27, 2015) |
| Subject |
Black people -- Poetry
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Black people -- Race identity -- Poetry
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American poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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Race relations
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Black people -- Race identity
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Black people
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American poetry
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- Poetry
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822981060 |
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0822981068 |
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