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ISBN-10: 1950268152
ISBN-13: 9781950268153
Publisher: Wave Books
Publish Date: 04/06/2021
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.90" W, 0.50" H

Sho

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Overview

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY

Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.

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"[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place."–Los Angeles Times
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ISBN-10: 1950268152
ISBN-13: 9781950268153
Publisher: Wave Books
Publish Date: 04/06/2021
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.90" W, 0.50" H
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