Simulacra / Airea D. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Airea D., Author.

Contributor:

Phillips, Carl.

Series:

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 111.

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book "rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant." This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Meeting want

... and repeating

Who.

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-22793-0

OCLC:

974372392