Marie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARBorzutzky, Daniel
Summary: Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan's poems explore the themes of estrangement, state violence and capitalist exploitation, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BORBhowmik, Anuradha
Summary: Anuradha Bhowmik’s life as a Bangladeshi-born American girl growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States gives shape to this debut collection. Brown Girl Chromatography interrogates issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a post-9/11 America while navigating the poet’s millennial childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The poems follow Bhowmik as she learns about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 BHOJohnson, Amaud Jamaul
Summary: "Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980s, Johnson examines the limitations of romance to heal broken relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JOHSu, Adrienne
Summary: "Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SUFuad, Tracy
Summary: In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author’s consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi Kurdistan. about:blank—the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page—complicates questions of longing and belonging. Interrogating the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021