num_pages: 96
description: An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles - from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.
language: English
title: Annotations
titlecomplete: Annotations (New Directions Paperbook, 809)
genres: American, Queer, Literary Fiction, Novels, United States, LGBT, Fiction, Poetry, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 181
publisher: New Directions