A collection of poems by contemporary African American poet Jericho Brown exploring the beauty in everyday life despite the terror of mass shootings, rape, and police violence. Includes poems about fatherhood, blackness, queerness, and trauma, and features the poet's invented form he calls the "duplex" that combines the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues.
General Note
"Lannan literary selection"--Cover page [4].
Content Note
Ganymeded -- As a human being -- Flower -- The microscopes -- The tradition -- Hero -- After Another country -- The water lilies -- Foreday in the morning -- The card tables -- Bullet points -- Duplex -- The trees -- Second language -- After Avery R. Young -- A young man -- Duplex -- Riddle -- Good white people -- Correspondence -- Trojan -- The legend of Big and Fine -- The peaches -- Night shift -- Shovel -- The long way -- Dear whiteness -- Of the swan -- Entertainment industry -- Stake -- Layover -- Duplex -- Of my fury -- After Essex Hemphill -- Stay -- A.D. -- Turn you over -- The virus -- The rabbits -- Monotheism -- Token -- The hammers -- I know what I love -- Crossing -- Deliverance -- Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park -- Dark -- Duplex -- Thighs and ass -- Cakewalk -- Stand -- Duplex : cento.