Everything Saved Will Be Last
Paperback 40 pages English March 30, 2021
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everything saved will be last, the debut poetry chapbook from Isaac Pickell, considers the body and the environments that hold it while navigating the personal, generational, and societal consequences of passing as white. Pickell's work pursues small moments of self, embodied memory, and politics that bleed away from the skin, toward whatever can be accessed as home, onto what remains there.Melodic and often unsettling, this collection allows nothing passive about passing or in choosing to refuse it; Pickell's speakers do not shy away from the specter of blackface fantasies, of not always recognizing ourselves in the stories we tell.Part reflection and part indictment, the meditations in these pages take aim at the long story of racial capitalism and its contemporary keepers. everything saved will be last asks the questions we should all still be asking and invites sometimes uncomfortable answers. These are poems that require sinking into, poems that will stay with the reader long after the last page.
- Author:
- Isaac Pickell
- Publisher:
- Black Lawrence Press
- Publication Date:
- March 30, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 40 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1625570163
- ISBN-13:
- 9781625570161