Description
| Product ID: | 9781950268153 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Sho |
| Authors: | Author: Douglas Kearney |
| Page Count: | 104 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An experiment and experience in language, surveying the junction of violence, entertainment, race, and folklore. 2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Wave Books |
| Publisher Name: | Wave Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-20 |
