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by Cortney Lamar Charleston
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cortney Lamar CharlestonSeries:Breakbeat PoetsPublish date:2021-02-09Pages:100
Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592658ISBN-10:164259265XUPC:9781642592658Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCT3GDGGQ6

In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community.

With the wit and musicality fitting of a 90s baby raised during the Golden age of hip-hop, Cortney Lamar Charleston grapples with the landscapes of Chicago's South Side and surrounding suburbs, and the tensions that impact a Black boy's struggle through self-destructive definitions of manhood. While the language in these poems is playful, Charleston's vulnerability invites readers to intimately witness the speaker's journey from adopted persona to an authentic self that defies traditional molds.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592658ISBN-10:164259265XUPC:9781642592658Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCT3GDGGQ6

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.


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