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Bittering the Wound

Bittering the Wound

Germain, Jacqui

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Series: Caapp Book Prize

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1637680562
ISBN13: 9781637680568
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: Oct 20 2022
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Bittering the Wound by Jacqui Germain, selected by Douglas Kearney as the winner of the 2021 CAAP Book Prize is a firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.

Part documentation, part conjuring, this debut collection works to share the narrative of the event with more complexity, audacity, care, and specificity than public media accounts typically allow. Throughout the book, Germain also grapples with navigating the impacts of sustained protest-related trauma on mental health as it relates to activism and organizing. The book also takes occasional aim at the media that sensationalized these scenes into a spectacle and at the faceless public that witnessed them.

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