Boy with thorn
By: Rickey Laurentiis
Series: Pitt poetry series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780822963813
Subjects: Poetry; Blacks
Work titles: Poems
Description: 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.
Notes: Cave Canem Poetry Prize, 2014