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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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- Conditions for a Southern Gothic
- I saw I dreamt two men
- One country
- Black iris
- Lord and chariot
- Ghazal for Emmett Till
- Carnal knowledge
- Mood indigo
- Swing low
- Vanitas with Negro boy
- King of shade, king of scorpions
- Full
- Little song
- Writing an elegy
- He who refuses does not repent
- Quiet please
- Modern ripple
- Southern Gothic
- Of the leaves that have fallen
- Crescendo
- Undiscovered genius of the Mississippi Delta
- Study in black
- A Southern wind
- This pair this marriage of two
- Do you feel me?
- Mood for love
- Faggot
- You are not Christ
- No Ararat
- Epitaph on a stone
- Black gentleman
- Take it easy
- Boy with thorn.