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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Murillo, John, author.     Subjects     Racism -- Poetry.     Anger -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Murillo, John, author.       by title:      Kontemporary Amerika...         MARC Display

Kontemporary Amerikan poetry : poems / John Murillo. by Murillo, John, author. Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2020] Subjects Racism -- Poetry.   Anger -- Poetry. ISBN:  9781945588471 (paperback) : 1945588470 (paperback) Description:  73 pages ; 23 cm Contents:  On confessionalism -- Variation on a theme by Elizabeth Bishop -- Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds, -- On metaphor -- Dolores, maybe. -- On magical realism -- Poem ending and beginning on lines by Larry Levis -- Dear Yusef, -- On negative capability -- Mercy, mercy me -- A refusal to mourn the deaths, by gunfire, of three men in Brooklyn -- Contemporary American poetry -- On epiphany -- After the dance -- Variation on a theme by Gil Scott-Heron -- On lyric narrative -- Distant lover -- On prosody -- Variation on a theme by the notorious B.I.G. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A writer traces his history-brushes with violence, responses to threat, poetic and political solidarity-in poems of lyric and narrative urgency. John Murillo's second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against African Americans and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father's fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker "to become something unbreakable." The presence of these and poetic forbears-Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa-provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice. "Maybe memory is the only home / you get," Murillo writes, "and rage, where you/first learn how fragile the axis/upon which everything tilts.""--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 811.6 Mu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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