Thief in the interior / Phillip B. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Phillip B., author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Poetry.

Gay men.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

82 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2016]

Contents:

I

Bound (starting p. 1)

Black Witch Moth (starting p. 2)

Ignis Fatuus (starting p. 4)

First Words (starting p. 5)

Then as Proof the Land (starting p. 7)

Inheritance: Spinning Noose Clears Its Throat (starting p. 8)

Vision in Which the Final Blackbird Disappears (starting p. 10)

Inheritance: The Force of Aperture (starting p. 11)

God as a Failed Figuration (starting p. 13)

Inheritance: Anthem (starting p. 14)

Sonnet with a Cut Wrist and Flies (starting p. 20)

A Spray of Feathers, Black (starting p. 24)

Prayer (starting p. 25)

Misericorde (starting p. 26)

II

Witness (starting p. 29)

III

Door to a War I Never Knew (starting p. 47)

Love Story (starting p. 48)

No, Tell Him

(starting p. 49)

Luminous, Whatever Honey (starting p. 50)

Rend (starting p. 51)

Of Contour, of Cadence (starting p. 52)

Greatly Be Gentle (starting p. 53)

IV

Often I am Permitted to Return to the City (starting p. 57)

Of Darker Ceremonies (starting p. 59)

A Survey of Masculinity (starting p. 60)

Apotheosis (starting p. 61)

Do-rag (starting p. 64)

He Loved Him Madly (starting p. 66)

Eleggua and Eshu Ain't the Same (starting p. 70)

Visitation (starting p. 72)

For Joy Be Righteous (starting p. 73)

Selvage (starting p. 74)

Epithalamium (starting p. 75)

Of Shadows and Mirrors (starting p. 76)

Birth of the Doppelganger (starting p. 78)

Notes (starting p. 81)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82).

Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Poetry, Winner, 2017

ISBN:

9781938584176

1938584171

OCLC:

903436605

Publisher Number:

40025660251