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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781980090199
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ISBN: 9781705016619
| Runtime: | 1.49 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Poetry |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful—the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us.
Author
Author Bio: Justin Phillip Reed
Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet and essayist. He is the author of Indecency, winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is the 2019-2021 fellow in creative writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His work appears in African American Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, the New Republic, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He earned his BA degree in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, la Maison Baldwin, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Poetry |
| Runtime: | 1.49 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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