Title: Slingshot
Description: SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing isolation of the pastoral, but once the work migrates to the City, monstrum grows form and fangs. In these messy, horny, desperate poems spun from dream logic, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson considers the consequences of black sexual and gender deviance, as well as the emotional burden of being forced to the rim of society, then punished for what keeps you alive.
Subjects: LGBTQ poetry, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Gender-nonconforming people, Poetry, Blacks, American poetry, Black people