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Title :

Sho / Douglas Kearney.

Title:

Sho

Author:

Kearney, Douglas

Format:

Books

Series:

Wave books ; 091

Wave books (Seattle, Wash.) ; 091.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781950268160

9781950268153

Production / Publication Information:

Seattle : Wave Books, [2021]

Contents:

Buck -- Well -- Property values -- Do the backseat jam! -- Everyday (I gets) -- Black flight -- Sand fire (or the pool, 2016) -- ...Fox! -- Livestock -- Promissorry note -- Dogged -- Close -- Borax -- The post- -- Wekter -- Demonology -- Sho -- Static -- Do the cruiseline-up slowgrind-up! -- Negroes are a fatsuit, ? Hollywood, USA -- Just wanna be like -- Deformation -- First, she cuts the stems -- The showdown -- Having drowned our lovers -- Do the six-foot jump down! -- Eulogy for a pair of kicks -- Eulogy for an afro pick -- The drifters after school -- Fire -- "...Say the sacred words" -- Manesology.

Contents:

Buck -- Well -- Property values -- Do the backseat jam! -- Everyday (I gets) -- Black flight -- Sand fire (or the pool, 2016) -- ... Fox! -- Livestock -- Promissorry note -- Dogged -- Close -- Borax -- The post- -- Wekter -- Demonology -- Sho -- Static -- Do the cruiseline-up slowgrind-up! -- Negroes are a fatsuit, ❤ Hollywood, USA -- Just wanna be like -- Deformation -- First, she cuts the stems -- The showdown -- Having drowned our lovers -- Do the six-foot jump down! -- Eulogy for a pair of kicks -- Eulogy for an afro pick -- The drifters after school -- Fire -- " ... Say the sacred words" -- Manesology.

Summary:

"A new collection of poetry by Douglas Kearney"--

Bibliography note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Subject Term:

American poetry -- 21st century.

Holds: Copies:

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Material Type	Library	Call Number	Item Barcode	Location
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Book	Searching... Lowell - Pollard Memorial Library	811.6 KEA	31481005572529	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY

Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his "stove-like imagination," Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.

Excerpts

PROPERTY VALUES I aspire to be a cvs: Lord, I wanna be a drugstore inna my heart--. Or a nice neighborhood, a rapless gas-up-- inna my heart--a "legit" "ballot"-- I perspire all night at it. Excerpted from Sho by Douglas Kearney All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.