Come Kingdom: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) - Softcover

Harriell, Derrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807177970 ISBN 13: 9780807177976

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Derrick Harriell's new book, Come Kingdom, chronicles a Black man's journey toward an ever-elusive American Dream with poems anchored in the trenches of personal crossroads ranging from child conception to substance abuse and racism. The collection follows a male speaker as he and his partner family plan, hoping to provide their son with a sibling. Their troubles burst through in bold poems that incorporate both medical and mental hurdles. At the same time, it pays homage to Black musical icons such as Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, and Nipsey Hussle. With spirited vulnerability and gritty lyricism, Harriell reveals the stakes and hauntings of relentless generational traumas. A tour de force of outcry and courage, Come Kingdom confronts shifting social, political, and musical climates. On a more intimate level, it also follows a couple's desperate attempts to become parents again.

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Derrick Harriell is the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Stripper in Wonderland (LSU Press, 2017), Cotton (Aquarius Press-Willow Books 2010), and Ropes (Aquarius Press, 2014). He is the winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807177970
• ISBN 13: 9780807177976
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
• Herausgeber: Smith Dave
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