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Prelude to bruise / Saeed Jones.
Van Pelt Library PS3610.O6279 P74 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Saeed, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- African American gay people--Southern States--Poetry.
- African American gay people.
- Abused gay men--Poetry.
- Abused gay men.
- Homosexuality--Southern States--Poetry.
- Homosexuality.
- Fathers and sons--Poetry.
- Fathers and sons.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 103 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- How do we reckon our past without being ravaged by it? How do we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves?--Publisher website.
- Contents:
- Anthracite
- Insomniac
- Closet of red
- The blue dress
- Isaac, after Mount Moriah
- Pretending to drown
- Boy in a stolen evening gown
- Boy at edge of woods
- Terrible Boy
- Daedalus, after Icarus
- Boy in a whalebone corset
- Boy found inside a wolf
- Boy at threshold
- After the first shot
- Last call
- "Don't let the sun set on you"
- Prelude to a bruise
- Coyote cry
- Jasper, 1998
- Lower Ninth
- Drag
- Kudzu
- Beheaded kingdom
- Thralldom
- Cruel body
- Thallium
- He thinks he can leave me
- Secondhand (smoke)
- Body & Kentucky bourbon
- Eclipse of my third life
- Guilt
- Sleeping arrangement
- Apologia
- Ketamine & company
- Thralldom II
- Skin like brick dust
- Kingdom of trick, kingdom of drug
- Blue prelude
- In Nashville
- Highway 407
- Meridian
- Mercy
- Mississippi drowning
- Casket sharp
- Dominion
- The fabulist
- Room without a ghost
- Dirge
- After last night
- Hour between dog & wolf
- Postapocalyptic heartbeat
- History, according to Boy
- Last portrait as Boy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Winner, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781566893749
- 1566893747
- OCLC:
- 870289266
- Publisher Number:
- 40024050182
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