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Velvet: Poems

Velvet: Poems

Fargason, William

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ISBN10: 0810147238
ISBN13: 9780810147232
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: May 15 2024
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
An exposed and exposing collection of poetry on inherited trauma, chronic illness, and the American South

Velvet, the second full-length collection from award-winning poet William Fargason, explores chronic illness, patriarchal abuse, intergenerational trauma, and racial inequality in the American South. Its speaker moves through the generations that preceded him to understand himself, and to heal from traumas both inherited and lived. As part of that heritage, the speaker confronts a family history of participation in racist ideologies and organizations to make sense of his own place within, and responsibility to, this history. In the titular lyric essay, Velvet, Fargason braids scientific research and YouTube videos in an attempt to forge paths for healing while contending with an inherited chronic disease. Ultimately, Velvet argues against traditional forms of toxic masculinity and suggests that vulnerability, soft and bleeding as the velvet on a deer's antlers, offers one solution to it.

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