The gilded auction block / Shane McCrae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCrae, Shane, 1975- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Gilded auction block : poems

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]

Summary:

In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump and contextualizes him historically and personally, exploding the illusions of freedom of both black and white Americans. A moving, incisive, and frightening exploration of both the legacy and the current state of white supremacy in this country, The Gilded Auction Block is a book about the present that reaches into the past and stretches toward the future.

Contents:

The president visits the storm

I fight him (Ann Parker)

Everything I know about blackness I learned from Donald Trump

Black Joe Arpaio

Display food

Sonnet for Desiree Fairooz prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing

We'll go no more a roving

After Carrie Kinsey's letter to Theodore Roosevelt

Purchase

If you see something, say something

The role of the negro in the works of art

The brown horse Ariel

After a photograph of a town house in the Lafayette Park residential district Detroit

Awaiting the guns

Guns will be guns

Remembering my white grandmother who love me and hated everybody like me

Forgiveness grief

Hatred

Seawhere

Immigrants

The hell poem

The monster made of America dreams of America

After the skinny repeal is voted down.

ISBN:

9780374162252

0374162255

OCLC:

1035365132