everything saved will be last - Couverture souple

Pickell, Isaac

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625570163 ISBN 13 : 9781625570161

Editeur : Black Lawrence Press, 2021

Synopsis

everything saved will be last, the debut poetry chapbook from Isaac Pickell, considers the body and the environments that hold it while navigating the personal, generational, and societal consequences of passing as white. Pickell’s work pursues small moments of self, embodied memory, and politics that bleed away from the skin, toward whatever can be accessed as home, onto what remains there. Melodic and often unsettling, this collection allows nothing passive about passing or in choosing to refuse it; Pickell’s speakers do not shy away from the specter of blackface fantasies, of not always recognizing ourselves in the stories we tell. In “The future was better before,” the speaker questions the boundaries and permeations of identity and selfhood: “When are we gonna get tired / becoming genre and cower // into the helpless terror / of being just one person // [ All my life, I’ve wanted skin / like that ].” Part reflection and part indictment, the meditations in these pages take aim at the long story of racial capitalism and its contemporary keepers. everything saved will be last asks the questions we should all still be asking and invites sometimes uncomfortable answers. These are poems that require sinking into, poems that will stay with the reader long after the last page.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isaac Pickell is a passing poet & PhD student at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of blackness and black literature. A graduate of Miami University's MFA program, his work has been featured in Crazyhorse, Fence, The Journal, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter; you can find his new stuff online at Black Warrior Review, Protean Magazine, and Sixth Finch; and EVERYTHING SAVED WILL BE LAST (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) is his debut chapbook. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Lawrence Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625570163
• ISBN 13: 9781625570161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 54
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne