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- Refuse: Poems
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music
Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- A Thousand Cardinals
- pp. 3-5
- Summer After
- p. 12
- The Academy of Acceptable Loss
- pp. 24-28
- Friday Night Lights #20
- pp. 34-35
- Translation
- p. 40
- (Self) Inflicted
- p. 42
- Insomniac Soliloquy
- p. 49
- My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 1
- pp. 50-51
- Portrait of My Father as Sisyphus
- pp. 52-54
- My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 2
- pp. 55-56
- Palinopsia
- p. 57
- Police Dream #607
- p. 58
- Palinopsia
- p. 59
- Palinopsia
- p. 61
- Ghazal for the Suicidal Thought
- pp. 64-65
- Palinopsia
- p. 66
- Variation on a Theme of Genetics
- pp. 70-71
- Mercy, Mercy, Him
- p. 74
- Negrotopia #3
- p. 83
- Sad Nigga Manifesto
- pp. 84-86
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 87-90
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822986171
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965602
MARC Record
OCLC
1048403194
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2018-09-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018
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