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An experiment and experience in language, surveying the junction of violence, entertainment, race, and folklore.
List of contents
Contents1. Come Back Striking What's AboveBuck
Well
Property Values
Do the Backseat Jam!
Everyday (I Gets)
Black Flight
Sand Fire (or The Pool, 2016)-
...Fox!
Livestock
Promissorry Note
Dogged
Close
Borax
The Post-
Welter
Demonology
2. A Negrocious Show of FeelsSho
Static
Do the Cruiseline-up Slowgrind-up!
Negroes Are a Fatsuit, ¿ Hollywood, USA
Just Wanna Be Like
Deformation
First, She Cuts the Stems
The Shootout
Having Drowned Our Lovers
Do the Six-Foot Jump Down!
The Drifters After School
Eulogy for a Pair of Kicks
Eulogy for an Afro Pick
Fire
"...say the magic words"
Manesology
Acknowledgments & Notes
About the author
Douglas Kearney has published six collections, including
Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and the California Book Award silver medal (Poetry). M. NourbeSe Philip calls Kearney's collection of libretti,
Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito, 2016), "a seismic, polyphonic mash-up." Kearney's
Mess and Mess And (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that
Publisher's Weekly 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 Minnesota-Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
Summary
An experiment and experience in language, surveying the junction of violence, entertainment, race, and folklore.
Foreword
- Digital galley and print review copy mailings to major book reviews, literary journals, and library buyers' guides.
- Author interview pitches.
- Social media campaign.
- Outreach to independent booksellers.
- Outreach to poetry and related literary organizations.
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author events.
- Display at conferences and bookfairs.
- Co-op available
