Blood of the Air: Poems - Paperback
by Ama Codjoe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ama CodjoeSeries:Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry PrizePublish date:2020-03-15Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810141711ISBN-10:081014171XUPC:9780810141711Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:6.80 x 4.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.0992Product ID:SCK3XN1S8D
Blood of the Air: Poems
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of several found poems--calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In "She Said," the...
Series: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810141711ISBN-10:081014171XUPC:9780810141711Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:6.80 x 4.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.0992Product ID:SCK3XN1S8D
AMA CODJOE has been awarded support from the Cave Canem, Saltonstall, Jerome, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundations as well as from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Crosstown Arts, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony. Her recent poems have appeared in The Common, Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Codjoe is the recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, the...
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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