Boy with Thorn
eBook - ePub

Boy with Thorn

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Boy with Thorn

About this book

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himself—confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Conditions for a Southern Gothic
  7. I Saw I Dreamt Two Men
  8. One Country
  9. Black Iris
  10. Lord and Chariot
  11. Ghazal for Emmett Till
  12. Carnal Knowledge
  13. Mood Indigo
  14. Swing Low
  15. Vanitas with Negro Boy
  16. King of Shade, King of Scorpions
  17. Full
  18. Little Song
  19. Writing an Elegy
  20. He who Refuses Does Not Repent
  21. Quiet Please
  22. Modern Ripple
  23. Southern Gothic
  24. Of the Leaves That Have Fallen
  25. Crescendo
  26. Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
  27. Study in Black
  28. A Southern Wind
  29. This Pair This Marriage of Two
  30. Do You Feel Me?
  31. Mood for Love
  32. Faggot
  33. You Are Not Christ
  34. No Ararat
  35. Epitaph on a Stone
  36. Black Gentleman
  37. Take it Easy
  38. Boy with Thorn
  39. Notes
  40. Acknowledgments