All the rage / by Rosamond S. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Rosamond S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--Poetry.

Racism.

Race relations--Poetry.

Race relations.

American poetry--African American authors--21st century.

American poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

American poetry--African American authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2021]

Summary:

"All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA -- a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity. At its core dwells the 'Living in the Abattoir' series, set in an alternate yet familiar world, in which people of color live in an abattoir as both workers and meat. All the Rage addresses the contemporary realities of life in the USA from a variety of perspectives: being a black person, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. The title All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing, systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, “trending.”--Publisher's description.

Contents:

This book/is for you p. 1

Welcome to the Abattoir: I do not want to be a monster p. 5

America the beautiful p. 6

Etymology of a Scream p. 7

Sometime in the near future p. 9

All of us are born in blood p. 10

If you're just walking through... p. 11

It's called the Abattoir because... p. 12

Or / You Betta Re Cog Nize p. 13

Independence from Treaties p. 14

21st Century Goddamn p. 15

The Known and Unknown p. 16

For La Table Ronde p. 17

Avant-Garde Is a Term of War

Breathe. As in p. 21

Avant-Garde / Is a Term of War p. 23

A banana is not a gun p. 24

Breathe /.As in... p. 25

Golden breath / slippering away p. 26

[untitled] p. 27

We are compliant p. 28

Bandin belly in Brooklyn p. 29

How do we bear it p. 31

Your safe ardor p. 32

"Yonder they do not / love your flesh p. 33

Blood is the New Hot Sauce: sweet salt p. 37

Blood, is the New Hot Sauce p. 38

Gentrifying the Abattoir p. 39

Abattoir Gentrification p. 40

After our sweet meat p. 42

Oops p. 43

No /, Sir p. 44

No sun today p. 45

(After depart meant p. 46

For the Women

Some of us / did not p. 49

What in danger / meant p. 50

A Judge Supreme p. 51

This is for the women p. 53

For the policeman who wept as he was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting more than a dozen Black women p. 55

Numbers p. 56

BLDM / BLM p. 58

Not Just Another / Dead Black Man p. 59

We make conspiracy over our dead p. 60

Reparations 2 p. 61

That Would Be Telling

"We've got white people / ."Yes we do p. 65

Rimbaud is not Rambo p. 67

White Woman Calls Police p. 68

What do you have / holstered p. 70

(in the wake of murders in Ocean Hill... p. 71

"I'm late to this party p. 72

Becky wants to know p. 74

Accessory after the fact p. 75

Crimson-colored glasses p. 76

Double Valence

A 21st century / belly band p. 79

Contra band p. 80

Freedom p. 81

Do not complete with colored pen p. 82

Here it is p. 83

I can't breathe now p. 84

Corona is in Queens p. 85

The Curve Is Flattening p. 87

Seven o'clock is just seven o'clock p. 89

Say it p. 90

There is / no over p. 91

Sunshine Sigh

Know that we will... p. 95

Desire stronger than fear p. 96

Stoop sun gazing p. 97

Have you seen life p. 98

Beautiful Things p. 99

Unfinished p. 100

Letter to a ghost p. 101

Sometimes / it is that p. 102

No accident / , surviving p. 103

This poem knows... p. 104

Impossible p. 105.

ISBN:

9781643620718

1643620711

OCLC:

1196244112

Publisher Number:

99987407541