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Sho is ideal for readers passionate about contemporary poetry, Black vernacular expressions, and socially engaged literature that combines artful language with critical exploration of culture and history.
An experiment and experience in language, surveying the junction of violence, entertainment, race, and folklore.
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2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY
Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his "stove-like imagination," Kearney has concocted poems that destabilise the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
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"Always playful, forever in dialogue, Kearney’s poems come at being from all sides. This book is the crowning achievement of Kearney’s body of work to date."—Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry Award
"The book is anti-spectacle, asking readers to truly see and reckon with contemporary atrocities while remaining language-rich, expansive, and dazzling."—Victoria Chang, LARB
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ISBN: 9781950268153
Publisher: Wave Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Wave Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 177.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 104
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About the Author
Douglas Kearney called "an extraordinary book." He has received a Whiting Writer's Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
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