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003			OCoLC
005			20220517141623.0
008			211029s2022 nyu b 000 p eng
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020			_a9780393609332 _qhardcover
020			_a0393609332 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1252848708
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092			_a811.6 _bR332
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aReeves, Roger, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBest Barbarian : _bpoems / _cRoger Reeves.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2022]
300			_a120 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0	0	_tGrendel -- _tWithout the pelt of a lion -- _tChildren listen -- _tStanding in the Atlantic -- _tThe alphabet, for Naima -- _tIn rehearsal for the funeral -- _tSovereign silence, or The city -- _tCocaine and gold -- _tRat among the pines -- _tAmerican landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon -- _tInto the West -- _tThe broken fields mended -- _tAfter the funeral -- _tEcho: from the mountains -- _tso, Ecstasy -- _tAfter death -- _tCyclops and Balthazar -- _tMother's Day -- _tSecond plague year, black spots on the rose -- _tPoem, in an old language -- _tThe end of Ghassan Kanafani -- _tDomestic violence -- _tSomething about John Coltrane -- _tOde to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a lemon" -- _tRich Black, or Best barbarian -- _tPrayer of the jaguar -- _tDrapetomania, or James Baldwin as an improvisation -- _tGrendel's mother -- _t"Espíritu santo también..." -- _tFragment 107 -- _tAmerican runner -- _tBest Barabbas -- _tMy Folks -- _tLeaf-Sigh and Bray -- _tCaught in a Black doorway -- _tAs a child of North America -- _tFuture, from beyond the voice of God -- _tBy beauty, from beyond the voice of God -- _tYour hand to your face blocking the sun -- _tI can drink the distance, or Fire in the lake -- _tJourney to Satchidananda -- _tFor Black children at the end of the world--and the beginning.
520			_a"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity-climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Drawing on a history of poetry that ranges from the Aeneid to Walt Whitman to Drake, Best Barbarian offers moments of joy and intimacy amid catastrophe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vPoetry. _962775
650		0	_aHumanity _vPoetry.
650		0	_aIntergenerational relations _vPoetry.
650		0	_aPsychic trauma _vPoetry.
655		7	_aPoetry. _2lcgft _96749
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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