Boy with Thorn

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence.

About the author

Rickey Laurentiis, is the winner of the 2018 Whiting Award for Poetry. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear or are forthcoming inÊBoston Review, Fence, Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere.ÊBorn in New Orleans, Louisiana, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Rickey Laurentiis
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780822963813
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6381-3
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 208 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 148 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies