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Boy with Thorn

Boy with Thorn

Laurentiis, Rickey
Hayes, Terrance

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822963817
ISBN13: 9780822963813
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 9 2015
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
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.

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