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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cameron Barnett |
ISBN: | 9781938769269 1938769260 |
OCLC Number: | 1000594618 |
Awards: | Finalist for the 49th NAACP Image Awards. Winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest. |
Description: | 95 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | I -- When the Mute Swans Return 11 -- Nonbinding Legislation, or a Resolution 12 -- To the Octopus 14 -- Purple Ruckle 16 -- Stack 18 -- Stepping into Your Mouth 19 -- Country Grammar 20 -- True Facts About Water 22 -- Letter to Sandy 25 -- Nigger 27 -- Cygnus 29 -- Bottle 30 -- Drowning Boy's Guide to Water 32 -- Skin Theory 34 -- Crepe Sole Shoes 36 -- Iron Angel 40 -- Oceans Are the Smallest Things 42 -- Supernova 44 -- Theater of America 46 -- II -- From The Bones We Lose 48 -- III -- Black Boy's Guide to Blackness 56 -- Memoir of a Plagiarist 57 -- Smoke 58 -- Between Skin 60 -- Redwoods in the Hood 61 -- Emmett Till Haunts the Library in Money, MS 64 -- No Flex Zone 65 -- Muriatic 67 -- Bishop on a Slant 69 -- Fresh Prince 72 -- Eulogy for the Confederate Battle Flag 75 -- Post-Racial America: A Pop Quiz 76 -- Reunion 79 -- Baby 80 -- Solemn Pittsburgh Aubade 81 -- How to Heal a Boy's Fever 83 -- Firefly 84 -- Black Locusts 85 -- If a bag of silver coins and a bag of bullets sound the same 86 -- An Honest Prayer 88. |
Other Titles: | Poems. |
Responsibility: | Cameron Barnett. |
Abstract:
Cameron Barnett's debut poetry collection, selected by Ada Limon as winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest
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