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100	1		_aTaylor, Courtney Faye, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aConcentrate : _bpoems / _cCourtney Faye Taylor.
264		1	_aMinneapolis, Minnesota : _bGraywolf Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c© 2022
300			_axi, 125 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references (pages 121-124).
520			_a"In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins-a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins's murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor's poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against-and between-women of color. Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood's relentless refusal to be unseen, even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor's inventive, intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory, forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. "Concentrate," she writes. "We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make.""-- _cProvided by publisher.
586			_aWinner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction / _rRachel Eliza Griffiths -- _t"So far" -- _tArizona? -- _tA thin obsidian life is heaving on a time limit you set -- _tThe phenomenon of withholding -- _tFour memorials -- _tCitrus visiting me with cruelty -- _tParadise.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRelations with Korean Americans _vPoetry.
650		0	_aRodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 _vPoetry.
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
655		7	_aPoetry. _2lcgft _96749
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