Boy with thorn /

Boy with thorn /

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurentiis, Rickey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
Black people > Poetry.
Black people > Race identity > Poetry.
Noirs > Poésie.
Black people.
Black people > Race identity.
Race relations.
Lyrik
Amerikanisches Englisch
United States > Race relations > Poetry.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Poésie.
United States.
Poetry
Gay poetry.
Poésie.

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