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ISBN-10: 0811213048
ISBN-13: 9780811213042
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/17/1995
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.27" W, 0.28" H

Annotations

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Overview

An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles–from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0811213048
ISBN-13: 9780811213042
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/17/1995
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.27" W, 0.28" H
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