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Spectral Evidence: Poems
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Black American StudiesGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 1524731781
ISBN13: 9781524731786
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781524731786
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY -
FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD - A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department (flames rose like orchids . . . / blocks lay open like egg cartons); and more. At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, Spectral Evidence compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice--and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: If I could be / the forensic dreamer / . . . / . . . my art would be a mortician's / paints.
FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD - A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department (flames rose like orchids . . . / blocks lay open like egg cartons); and more. At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, Spectral Evidence compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice--and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: If I could be / the forensic dreamer / . . . / . . . my art would be a mortician's / paints.
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