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Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

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John Murillo's second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father's fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker "to become something unbreakable." The presence of these and poetic forbears—Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa—provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17960441
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Four Way Books
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1945588470
ISBN 13:
9781945588471
ISBN:
9781945588570, 1945588578, 2019031752, 9782019031756, 9781945588471, 1945588470
Series:
Stahlecker Selections

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