Bibliograph

Best Barbarian, poems, Roger Reeves

Type

Label

Best Barbarian, poems, Roger Reeves

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Best Barbarian

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1302358886

Responsibility statement

Roger Reeves

Sub title

poems

Summary

"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity-climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Drawing on a history of poetry that ranges from the Aeneid to Walt Whitman to Drake, Best Barbarian offers moments of joy and intimacy amid catastrophe"--, Provided by publisher

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