Dispatch: Poems

$15.95

SKU: 9780892555031 Category:
Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron
Publication Date: 12/10/2019
Publisher: Persea Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day. These poems ask: What kind of revisions will make this a world/a story that is concerned with my people’s flourishing? How ought I pay attention, how to register perpetual bad news without letting it fatally intrude? Cameron Awkward-Rich is among the most bracing voices to emerge in recent years, a dazzling exemplar of poetry’s (and humanity’s) possibilities.