Sho (Signed Copy)

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Sho
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Condition: 
New
Dust Jacket Condition: 
New
Signed Copy?: 
Yes
Inscribed?: 
No
Ex-Library?: 
No

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Primary Author: 
Kearney, Douglas
Binding Type: 
Paperback
Publisher: 
Wave Books
Publication Date: 
04/06/2021
Book Description: 

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.

 

ISBN: 
9781950268153