Simulacra / Airea D. Matthews ; foreword by Carl Phillips.
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, ins...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Yale series of younger poets ;
v. 111. |
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| Summary: | Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book "rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant." This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 80 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77) |
| ISBN: | 9780300223972 0300223978 9780300223965 030022396X |