Sho / Douglas Kearney.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Seattle : Wave Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 88 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781950268160
- 1950268160
- 1950268152
- 9781950268153
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 K24 | Available | 33111010473276 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY
Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his "stove-like imagination," Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
"A new collection of poetry by Douglas Kearney"-- Provided by publisher.