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“derrick austin”

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  • This Elegance

    by Derrick Austin ...
    This Elegance is a poetic meditation on beauty, pleasure, and transcendence in a time of collective uncertainty. These poems respond to solitude, grief, and fear with a radical inward turn—seeking ecstasy, presence, and the reclamation of self.Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tenderness

    by Derrick Austin ...
    In a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer black people, where can the spirit rest?With lush language, the meditative poems in the Isabella Gardner Award-winning Tenderness examine the fraught nature of intimacy in a nation poisoned by anti-Blackness and homophobia. From the bedroom to the dance floor, from the natural world to The Frick, from the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Trouble the Water

    by Derrick Austin ...
    Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate what it means to be, as Austin says, fully human as a “queer, black body” in 21st century America ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Citizen

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  • Prelude to Bruise

    by Saeed Jones ...
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  • Brutal Imagination PA

    by Cornelius Eady ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Award in PoetryBrutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village Voice**This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family ... Read more

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  • even this page is white

    by Vivek Shraya ...
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  • play dead

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  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

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  • A Wall in Jerusalem

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