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In the language of my captor /

Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCrae, Shane, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
Colección:Wesleyan poetry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • His God
  • Panopticon
  • Privacy
  • What Do You Know About Shame
  • Privacy 2
  • In the Language
  • 2
  • Purgatory: A Memoir / A Son and a Father of Sons
  • 3
  • Banjo Yes Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Banjo Yes Recalls His First Movies
  • Banjo Yes Talks About His First White Wife
  • Banjo Yes Plucks an Apple from a Tree in a Park
  • Banjo Yes Talks About Motivation
  • Banjo Yes Asks a Journalist
  • 4
  • (hope)(lessness)
  • Sunlight
  • Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents After the War
  • Asked About The Banjo Man and Its Sequels Banjo Yes Tells a Journalist Something About Himself
  • Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face.