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Freedom house : poems / K. B. Brookins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brookins, K. B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Queer poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (123 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins's formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and Afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms." The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more-all while using humor and craft. What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Black Life circa 2029
- I: Foyer
- KB's Origin Story
- T Shot #1
- Every Building in East Austin Is a Ghost
- &
- Somehow, Men Are Nicer to Me Now
- Sexting at the Gynecologist
- Dinner with John Cena on the Moon
- It's 6 am &
- the Sun Is Out
- The pickup comes at 6 am
- Everything's Temporary
- KB Goes Home for the Holidays
- What's on your mind, KB?
- II: Dining Room
- Sonic Symbolism
- Bare Minimum, or To-Do List for White America
- Tattletale
- Ars Poetica with Election Results Still in Limbo
- T Shot #4
- We Are Owed This
- Greedy Ghazal
- Curriculum Vitae
- My therapist called it climate despair
- Fuck Me, Jeff Bezos
- Cognitive Dissonance
- The Male Gaze Serves Black People Dinner for Once
- America (Remix)
- Notes after Watching the Inauguration
- I'm not writing anything else where white people are the assumed audience
- S.B. No. 8: Erasure
- III. Bedroom
- I Admit It
- T Shot #2
- Spondylolisthesis, or Why I Eat Taco Bell
- What If I Wasn't
- I take my therapist's suggestion &
- correct worrying to caring
- T Shot #6: a parallel universe
- Snake Plant
- Foodie, Or I Miss Every Hometown Cookout
- Good Grief
- Self-Portrait As A Hackberry Tree
- After Binging May I Destroy You In 3 Days
- Fleeting thoughts on a deadname that's not quite dead
- Sin City
- T Shot #7
- IV: Living Room
- Ars Poetica for Granny
- T Shot #3: Black hair
- Poets Are Better at Empathy/Morality/Being a Friend than Anyone Else
- Poem against "Black ____ Magic"
- T Shot #5: Ode to My Sharps Container
- A journal commissions me to write piece 2,022 about The Slap
- What still lives
- Almost-Duplex
- Another relative says KB don't call &
- don't write, again
- Death by Retina, or _____ Goes for a Swim.
- On the day of the trial Black America lost, again
- After the 30th play of Montero (Call me by Your Name)
- I Can Ride My Bike with No Handlebars
- He/they in the streets, they/them in the sheets
- Love Machine
- she walked so I could skip &
- jump
- Tales of Tacobella, or I Live On Like Black Rockstars
- Finally, a Slow Weekend
- Traveling to a New Star
- Coronosomnia
- T Shot #8
- A List of Things I Want Before This Life Lets Me Go
- Freedom House Manifesto
- ManifestManifestManifest
- Notes &
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781646052844
- OCLC:
- 1378933584
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