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Indecency is ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that tackles complex social issues through personal and political lenses. It suits those who appreciate innovative language, challenging themes around race, sexuality, and power, and who seek emotionally intense and thought-provoking literature in the arts and culture category.
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
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Winner of the 2018 US National Book Award for Poetry
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order.
Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful—the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponising poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us.
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry and finalist for multiple prestigious awards, Indecency has been praised for its visceral and cerebral approach. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, highlighting its eloquent yet raw examination of black identity, sexuality, and violence. The New York Times noted how the poems thrust readers into stark, physical encounters with their themes, while Library Journal called it "one-of-a-kind brilliant" with densely packed language. The Millions described the book as inspiring profound applause.
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ISBN: 9781566895149
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 May 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 136g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet living in St. Louis. His work appears in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in creative writing from Tusculum College and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. The author of the chapbook A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books 2016), he has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Conversation Literary Festival. Reed currently organizes the St. Louis community-based poetry workshop series Most Folks At Work. He was born and raised in South Carolina.
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