Derrick Harriell

Broschiertes Buch

Ropes

Tenth Anniversary Edition

Beschreibung

Poetry collection by Derrick Harriell, Ph.D. Based on the lives of several famous boxers, including Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, and Mike Tyson. ROPES uses a smart structure of four 'rounds, ' staged in reverse chronological order, to embrace the spectacle of Mike Tyson and then to track the boxing tradition back to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. Along the way, the collection interrogates the shapes of masculinity and violence in our society. Using the epistolary form, Harriell imagines exchanges between the boxing greats, as well as with cultural icons such as Lena Horne and Tupac Shakur; their intergenerational dialogues are filled with challenges, remembered hurts, and the tension of what W. E. B. Du Bois would term "double consciousness."

Autor

Derrick Harriell is the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Stripper in Wonderland (LSU Press, 2017), Cotton (Aquarius Press-Willow Books 2010), and Ropes (Aquarius Press, 2014). He is the winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aquarius Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9798988165569
• Artikelnr.: 71587946