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.
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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.