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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brody Parrish Craig |
ISBN: | 9781632430922 1632430924 |
OCLC Number: | 1191702817 |
Description: | 41 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | HOUSE OF RISING SONS 3BIBLE|VERS 4HAIRCUT IN THE KITCHEN SINK 5CLOSET MUSIC 7OVERPASS 8US LET THE RADIO PLAY ALONG & I 10EVERY GRRRL HAS A VISION OF HIR WARD-ROBE 11UNTRIMMED SONNET W EXCESS SUGAR 14HALLOW BE THY VEIN THAT RUNS 15FEMMEDADDY'S PRAYER 17PASSOVER THE PORTRAIT 18SOUTHERN COMFORT 19THE SHAPE I'M IN 21THE SECOND SHAVE 22BABY YOU EVER SEEN A WRETCH LIKE ME? 23TRAVERSE 24FULL 27 |
Responsibility: | Brody Parrish Craig. |
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"The poetry of Boyish exists in that sweet spot between subconscious and cosmos, where the mind can catch any inch of oppression and turn it into music. A genius, Craig, operates a ghost rail line; gut-wrenching rendition of 'Stormy Monday' driven in next to the steel. A book built with lightning, whispered in the soup-line, reading your fortune through scattered tossed bones and bayonet fragments. Watch the best friend you could not protect from a merciless onslaught of violent American hegemony, save their self and become one of the greats; proving that poetry is the cradle that society never mentions." -- Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes "Boyish is haunted by ghosts the speaker plays with, like 'holy shit I saw him ghostin' in / my breath I saw him in the glass ceiling.' Sometimes the speaker plays with what haunts them out of curiosity, sometimes out of frustration, sometimes out of love. In any case, it is through this play that they can 'acknowledge the shape [they're] in,' 'The Choir Boy' and 'Hymn' in them they haven't named. Reading the poems in this compact and powerful collection-never has looking back felt this much like moving on." -- Wendy Trevino, author of Cruel Fiction "All language is dialect-may it be as this collection is-of a queer joy and pain and grace and revival. Sonically, structurally inbuilt with a muscled architecture, grown over with vines of place and god and sexuality-here is a poetics coming of age in itself, and in the world." -- Cody-Rose Clevidence, author of Beast Feast Read more...

