King Me
By: Roger Reeves
Series: Lannan literary selections
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9781556594489
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, "King Me" examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, "While writing "King Me," I became very interested in the mythology of king, the one who is sacrificed at the end of the harvest season. . . . For me, the myth manifests in the killing of young black men, Emmett Till, and in the ways America deems young, black male bodies as expendable--Jean Michel Basquiat, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson. These are the young kings whom we love to kill--over and over again.
Notes: Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.