Thief in the Interior - Phillip B. Williams

Descriere Thief in the Interior - Phillip B. Williams

\nRecipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry \n 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner \n Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry \n 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist \n 2017 Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award Finalist \n 2017 Lambda Literary Awards Winner \n 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist \n 2017 Nominee for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry \n Shortlisted for Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry \n One of BET's 12 Must-Read Books for 2016 \n \nThis gorgeous debut is a 'debut' in chronology only. . . . Need is everywhere--in the unforgiving images, in lines so delicate they seem to break apart in the hands, and in the reader who will enter these poems and never want to leave.--Adrian Matejka\n \nPhillip B. Williams investigates the dangers of desire, balancing narratives of addiction, murders, and hate crimes with passionate, uncompromising depth. Formal poems entrenched in urban landscapes crack open dialogues of racism and homophobia rampant in our culture. Multitudinous voices explore one's ability to harm and be harmed, which uniquely juxtaposes the capacity to revel in both experiences.\n \n \nEpithalamium: \n \nA kiss. Train ride home from a late dinner, \nCity Hall and document signing. Wasn't cold \nbut we cuddled in an empty car, legal. \nLast month a couple of guys left a gay bar \nand were beaten with poles on the way \nto their car. No one called them faggot \nso no hate crime's documented. A beat down \nis what some pray for, a pulse left to count. \nWe knew we weren't protected. We knew \nour rings were party favors, gold to steal \nthe shine from. We couldn't protect us, \nknew the law wouldn't know how. Still, his \nbeard across my brow, the burn of his cologne. \nWhen the train stopped, the people came on. \n

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Alice James Books

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9781938584176

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