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Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Randall, Julian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; Icarus; A Thousand Cardinals; Biracial Ghazal: Why Everything Ends in Blood; This Land Is Where We Buried Everything That Came Before You: African American History and Concepts of Ownership in Early Elementary Education; Friday Night Lights #1; In A Rare Moment of Nostalgia My Father Reflects on Obama's First Inauguration; Taxonomy Regarding My Mother; I Think Everybody Has a Year They Never Really Leave; Summer After; Elegy for the Winter after Taina Was Cancelled; Chicago*; Wasn't the Minotaur Buried Horns First: Vulnerability and Identity in the Mythic Body.
  • A Poem about Trees That Is Not Actually a Poem about TreesNearly 7 Years after the Fact a Boy Whose Nose I Nearly Broke Hits Me Up for Brunch; In the Netflix Trailer Obama Says ""I Don't"" Fit in Anywhere"" While Anthony Hamilton Pulls a Burning City Out of His Mouth; Obama Says ""Mutts Like Me"" in the Mirror Every Morning While I Get Ready for School; The Academy of Acceptable Loss; Pregame Prayer with Complete Citations; Coverage; You Got McDonald's Money?; Friday Night Lights #20; Friday Night Lights #51.
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Once Bombed City: Psychological Explorations of Ancestral Memory Through the Lens of Racial Battle TraumaThe Space Between Skins Is Called a Wound; Translation; On The Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents; (Self) Inflicted; Frank Ocean Sighting #268: Frank Ocean Is Rumored to Speak of Rivers Which Is Likely a Lie (Disc 1); Narcissus; The Author Is Often Mistaken for Obama's Long Lost Son; Insomniac Soliloquy; My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 1; Portrait of My Father as Sisyphus; My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 2; Palinopsia; Police Dream #607; Palinopsia.
  • Elegy for the Summer after Django Unchained Came Out on DVDPalinopsia; Regrets; Ghazal for the Suicidal Thought; Palinopsia; The Search for Frank Ocean or a Brief History of Disappearing; Variation on a Theme of Genetics; Leslie Odom Jr. Sings Obama's Anger on NPR; Mercy, Mercy, Him; Tanka for the 4th of July; Zealots of Stockholm or Elegy for the Still Alive; Obama Wants to Be Clear about His Legacy; Obama Speaks of Rivers but We Have Always Been on Different Shores; Negrotopia #3; Sad Nigga Manifesto; Acknowledgments.