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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorthwestern University Press

ISBN-100810140527

ISBN-139780810140523

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038432816

Product Key Features

Book TitleNeckbone : Visual Verses

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicAmerican / African American, American / General, Lgbt

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Poetry

AuthorAvery R. Young

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight26.8 Oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width8.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-005649

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"I have never encountered a book filled with such defying, defiant soul. I cannot predict nor describe the potential audience for this book, but I assure you I am a member of that audience." --Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin?, "As you read this book, recognize that you're not just reading one of our greatest living street poets or one of the most important thinkers on the Black experience; you're reading about yourself." -Theaster Gates, "I have never encountered a book filled with such defying, defiant soul. I cannot predict nor describe the potential audience for this book, but I assure you I am a member of that audience." --Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Dewey Decimal811.6

Table Of ContentContents 3rd grade lil blkerything writes him first poem 1982: donna summer 9before de good lawd was in her bidness ars poetica ... pickin up leave(s) [kittahawa's lullaby] mama thomas dies ... title track labelle I aunt esther us(es) skin-rite complexion corekk(or) to look like Josephine Baker &/or Elizabeth big mama in the shoe store father's day [billie holiday] booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid dick gregory poem emory draw(s) a puddy tat labelle II fly on wallpaper nina & fat fight fount nina simone race muzik (e.z. to produce) - alternate take funk & wagnalls labelle III rodney king gotta lightskin(id) friend look like Rachel Dolezal souse uncle perry teaches me to pee after paul mooney 13 Audio race muzik (e.z. to produce) lament groun(d) lead in de wattah if pigeons are blk doves one step emmett (til de remix)

SynopsisThe "blk alter" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses . Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch, paint brush, metaphor, and narrative of arresting visual metaphors of childhood teachings and traumas, identity, and the personal reverence of pop culture's beauty and beast. A mastermind in a new language of poetry, that engages and challenges readers to see beyond the traditional spaces poems are shaped and exist, Young's neckbone extends tentacles in literature, art, and activism--redefining the collective and the sermon of the "blk" experience.

LC Classification NumberPS3625.O935A6 2019