Running to Stand Still - Couverture souple

Reyes, Kimberly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 163243072X ISBN 13 : 9781632430724

Editeur : Omnidawn, 2019

Synopsis

Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism, sexism, sizeism, colorism, and colonialism, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic, journalistic, and musical histories, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.

These poems teem with life, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure, the inevitable and the chosen, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kimberly Reyes is a poet, essayist, teacher, pop culture critic, and visual scholar. She is the author of the poetry collections Bloodletting, vanishing point., and Running to Stand Still. Her book of essays, Life During Wartime, won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. Her work has appeared widely in outlets including The Atlantic, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, ESPN The Magazine, Poetry Review, and American Poets Magazine. A recent PhD graduate, Dr. Reyes will join the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Miami in 2025.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Omnidawn
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 163243072X
• ISBN 13: 9781632430724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible