Begin with a failed body : poems /
Graham, Natalie J.,
Begin with a failed body : poems / by Natalie J. Graham. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xviii, 64 pages) - Cave Canum Poetry Prize .
Includes bibliographies and index.
This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. The poems arc from a pig farmer's funeral to Georges de la Tour's paintings and Toni Morrison's Beloved. With an ear tuned to the lift and lilt of speech, they wring song from sorrow and plant in every dirge a seed of jubilation.
9780820351193
African Americans--Poetry.
Electronic Books.
PS3607 / .B445 2017
Begin with a failed body : poems / by Natalie J. Graham. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xviii, 64 pages) - Cave Canum Poetry Prize .
Includes bibliographies and index.
This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. The poems arc from a pig farmer's funeral to Georges de la Tour's paintings and Toni Morrison's Beloved. With an ear tuned to the lift and lilt of speech, they wring song from sorrow and plant in every dirge a seed of jubilation.
9780820351193
African Americans--Poetry.
Electronic Books.
PS3607 / .B445 2017