The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems - Paperback
by Steven Leyva
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Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9781958888346ISBN-10:1958888346UPC:9781958888346Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Family, PlacesSize:8.74 x 6.77 x 0.16 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCQX5CA9SN
The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems
Steven Leyva's second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man's lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva's poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruins, to notice and praise "the industrious cherry // trees budding despite a summer / full of bullets to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9781958888346ISBN-10:1958888346UPC:9781958888346Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Family, PlacesSize:8.74 x 6.77 x 0.16 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCQX5CA9SN
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Low Parish (a chapbook) and the collection The Understudy's Handbook, which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an associate professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
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