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- Boy with Thorn
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize
Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Rickey Luarentiis is a winner of a 2018 Whiting Writers Prize
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.
Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Rickey Luarentiis is a winner of a 2018 Whiting Writers Prize
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.
Table of Contents
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- I Saw I Dreamt Two Men
- pp. 4-7
- One Country
- p. 8
- Black Iris
- pp. 9-10
- Lord and Chariot
- pp. 11-12
- Carnal Knowledge
- p. 14
- Mood Indigo
- pp. 15-20
- Vanitas with Negro Boy
- pp. 22-23
- Little Song
- p. 26
- Writing an Elegy
- pp. 27-28
- Quiet Please
- p. 30
- Modern Ripple
- p. 31
- Southern Gothic
- pp. 32-34
- Of the Leaves That Have Fallen
- pp. 35-54
- Study in Black
- p. 58
- A Southern Wind
- p. 59
- This Pair This Marriage of Two
- pp. 60-63
- Do You Feel Me?
- pp. 64-65
- Mood for Love
- pp. 66-68
- You Are Not Christ
- p. 70
- Epitaph on a Stone
- p. 72
- Black Gentleman
- p. 73
- Take it Easy
- p. 74
- Boy with Thorn
- pp. 75-82
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 87-89
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981060
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963813
MARC Record
OCLC
919123124
Pages
101
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-30
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015