Telepathologies / Cortney Lamar Charleston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charleston, Cortney Lamar, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

125 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover : Saturnalia Books, distributed by University Press of New England, [2017].

Summary:

Cortney Lamar Charleston's debut poetry collection looks at the state of race in 21st Century America. Today, as much as ever before, the black body is the battleground on which war is being waged in our inner cities, and Charleston bares witness with fear, anger, and glimpses of hope. He watches the injustice on T.V., experiences it firsthand at simple traffic stops, and even gives voice to those like Eric Garner and Sandra Bland who no longer can. --Adapted from publisher's website.

Contents:

How do you raise a black child?

Pool party

Blackness as a compound of if statements

At gunpoint

Melanphobia: Fear of Black

D.W.B.

Facing the music

SuICIdE, iT'S a SuiCIDe

Meditation on the casual use of hands

Meditation on black death ending with an x-ray

Memorandum

Spell check questions the validity of black life

Po-po postlude

Ghazal on the cusp of rage

Feeling fucked up

In case I still

Aviophobia: Fear fo flying

Praise song for the black body ending in the throat of a swallow

Charleston

State of the union

Kids these days

Meditation on wings and meeting Gabriel in a Philadelphia prison

Tupak Shakur's last words

Bibliophobia: Fear of books

The hood

BLK on BLK

Making a fist

You're only as healthy as you feel

American terrorism in seven acts

Where Brooklyn at?

Exhibitionism with a drop of blood

White, as told by black

Artfully dodging the subliminal and obvious

The melanin

Miley Cyrus presides over the funeral for the twerk

I'm not a racist

How did they justify the shooting?

Telepathologies

Ghazal for the bathing ape

Six shots on Ferguson, Missouri

Mama speaks of profiling

How did your mother die?

Meditation on Sunday tradition after the video leaks

Gynophobia: Fear of women

Keeping JELL-O

A boogie night, age 12

Ghazal of the code

The barbershop

Homophobia: Fear of sameness

I think i know one when I see one

Working definition of a prefix: Trans-

Autophobia: Fear of self

Katrina

I will show you a handful of dust

Hydrophobia: Fear of water

" ... Everyday something has tried to kill me and failed"

The melancholia

Water cooler talk ending with the colors of an American flag

Unmaking a fist

How do you forgive?

Ode to black love

In theory, we are all human

Notes.

Notes:

"Winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by D.A. Powell"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780998053448

0998053449

OCLC:

976437320

Publisher Number:

99971777364