Sho
Paperback 104 pages English April 06, 2021
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2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing 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.
- Author:
- Douglas Kearney
- Publisher:
- Wave Books
- Publication Date:
- April 06, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 104 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1950268152
- ISBN-13:
- 9781950268153