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A Shiver in the Leaves
Series: New Poets of America
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This collection will resonate strongly with readers interested in contemporary poetry, queer Black experiences, and explorations of love and identity amid social challenges. It suits those who appreciate deeply personal, emotive reflections woven with natural and urban imagery.
"Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire"--
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Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire.
Hughes draws readers into a Seattle that is heavily entrenched in violent anti-Blackness and full of vulnerable and personal encounters from both the speaker's past and present. With reverent and careful imagery, Hughes fashions deeply saturated, tender vignettes that reckon with relationships between family and friends, lovers, nature, and the police-state.
A Shiver in the Leaves is stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet's life in the city. Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body, and what it can mean to live.
Series: New Poets of America
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Praised for its raw and beautiful portrayal of Blackness and queer identity, the collection is described by Carl Phillips as a "book of hope, of triumph," rich with complex relationships and emotional abundance. Jericho Brown highlights Hughes as a poet who navigates erotic love alongside the realities of Blackness, family, and nature, describing the work as a "wild-ride collection" that carefully chronicles desire and self-awareness.
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ISBN: 9781950774678
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 November 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Carl Phillips
- Foreword by Carl Phillips
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 80
About the Author
Luther "Lue" Hughes (she/her) is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (Boa Editions, 2022), listed as best books of 2022 in The New Yorker, and the chapbook, Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), recommended by the American Library Association. She is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, an online platform for queer writers of color, cohosts The Poet Salon Podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat, and serves as the Poetry Editor for CHUM News. Her honors include the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Rosenberg Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, Cascade PBS's Black Arts Legacies honoree, and named Most Influential by Seattle Magazine. Her writing has been published in The Paris Review, Orion, American Poetry Review, Seattle Met, and others. She's been featured in The Seattle Times, ForbesWomen, Essence, KUOW Public Radio, and more. Lue lives in Seattle, where she was born and raised.
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