Bottom Rail on Top
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Bottom Rail on Top

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eBook - ePub

Bottom Rail on Top

About this book

Longlisted 2024 Raymond Souster Award

A rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it.

Somewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story, award-winning poet D.M. Bradford fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation, and stages the action in tandem with the matter of his own life. Amidst echoes and complicities, roots and flights, lineage and mastery, it's a story of stories told in knots and asides, held together with paper trails, curiosities, and hooks — a study that doesn't end.

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Information

Publisher
Brick Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781771316101
eBook ISBN
9781771316118

Table of contents

  1. 11rope to
  2. 17ashes to
  3. 25stock
  4. 35tempur
  5. 43loophole
  6. 57overseeroverseer
  7. 65“a loud noise in the heavens”
  8. 75deus hose
  9. 81parch to the sea
  10. 91run
  11. 97new corps
  12. 103lil chug
  13. 109“dis time”