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Boy with Thorn
Boy with Thorn | Rickey Laurentiis
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Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Selected by Terrance Hayes 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.
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Bertha_Mason
Boy with Thorn | Rickey Laurentiis
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My girlfriend and I went to see St. Vincent play in Nashville, and since I was in Nashville I had to stop by McKay's, my favorite indie warehouse bookstore. I highly recommend Boy With Thorn to anyone, by the way. I liked it so much I jumped at the chance to own a copy.

batsy And I've heard only wonderful things about the Pinckney book. 7y
Bertha_Mason I'll let you know how it is. I got so excited when I saw it. 😊 7y
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megan_spiegel
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Ekphrasis; received and invented forms; moments of surprising, almost Plath-like diction and syntax; darkness; and powerful writing about bodies, race, human interaction.

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