pick2018 NBA for Poetry winner. This collection focuses on life as a gay black man in the US—the anxieties, fears, worries, and experiences. In the afterword he acknowledges being depressed during the writing, which I suspected during my reading, but doubted my own interpretation. I haven‘t read all of the 2018 finalists to have a favorite, but can say this was a deserved win. #poetry
pick“Indecency” is a book of poems written by Justin Phillip Read. Although this book won the National Book Award, some individuals find the poetry in it is too difficult to understand. I will admit that the poems might not come easily but if you focus on each one hard enough you will begin to understand them and fully appreciate the beauty in his poetry. This book is about inequity and the issues with the dominant social order.
Happy Friday and happy start to #blackhistorymonth!! Reading a book of poetry by queer black author Justin Phillip Reed to kick off the month ✨
We are still dealing with this polar vortex. It's -1 F out still, not including wind chill. 😭
2019 resolution. Read more poetry. 📚
*Monument, Natasha Trethewey
*Ghost Of, Diana Koi Nguyen
*Wobble, Rae Armantrout
*Museum is the America‘s, J Michael Martinez
*Indecency, Justin Phillip Reed
*Eye Level, Jenny Xie
*Square Inch Hours, Sherod Santos
*Magdalene, Marie Howe
*Archeophonics, Peter Gizzi
We should cut our hair. How can you tell us apart. We should cut our hair. How can we tell ourselves apart for you. How can we help you to tell us apart. How can we help you to tell us apart. How can we help you to tear us apart. How can we help you. You tear us apart. How can we tear us. You help us apart. You help us part. How can we tear you. How can we tear you. How can we help us to tear you apart.
--from The Fratricide
pickFrom the NBA longlist for poetry - this is a stunning collection dealing with issues of race and sexual orientation and the intersection of the two. These poems are complex and often manage to be both cerebral and visceral. The author is inspired by the killings of unarmed black men and a local case of a black wrestler accused of killing others by deliberately infecting other men with HIV. Societal perceptions of race and sexuality are explored.
Indecency | 
