Sho
Douglas Kearney
***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***
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.
Duration - 48m.
Author - Douglas Kearney.
Narrator - Douglas Kearney.
Published Date - Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2021 Douglas Kearney ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.*** 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. Duration - 48m. Author - Douglas Kearney. Narrator - Douglas Kearney. Published Date - Wednesday, 15 January 2025. Copyright - © 2021 Douglas Kearney ©.
Language:
English
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