num_pages: 256
description: In this moving and lyrical collection of essays the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world variously assuming privilege or victimhood.Through letters to James Baldwin encounters with Derek Walcott Liam Neeson Soca Carnival family secrets love affairs white women's tears questions of aesthetics and more Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice.
language: English
title: Things I Have Withheld
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd