| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 103 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
With rootless cosmopolitanism, formal rigor, and the fluidity of slam, Jones explores questions of sexuality, race, and shifting identity. |
| Contents |
Anthracite -- Insomniac -- Closet of red -- Blue dress -- Isaac, after Mount Moriah -- Pretending to drown -- Boy in a stolen evening gown -- Boy at edge of woods -- Terrible Boy -- Daedalus, after Icarus -- Boy in a whalebone corset -- Boy found inside a wolf -- Boy at threshold -- After the first shot -- Last call -- "Don't let the sun set on you" -- Prelude to a bruise -- Coyote cry -- Jasper, 1998 -- Lower Ninth -- Drag -- Kudzu -- Beheaded kingdom -- Thralldom -- Cruel body -- Thallium -- He thinks he can leave me -- Secondhand (smoke) -- Body & Kentucky bourbon -- Eclipse of my third life -- Guilt -- Sleeping arrangement -- Apologia -- Ketamine & company -- Thralldom II -- Skin like brick dust -- Kingdom of trick, kingdom of drug -- Blue prelude -- In Nashville -- Highway 407 -- Meridian -- Mercy -- Mississippi drowning -- Casket sharp -- Dominion -- Fabulist -- Room without a ghost -- Dirge -- After last night -- Hour between dog & wolf -- Postapocalyptic heartbeat -- History, according to Boy -- Last portrait as Boy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
African American gay people -- Southern States -- Poetry.
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Abused gay men -- Poetry.
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Abused gay men. |
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Homosexuality -- Southern States -- Poetry.
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Homosexuality. |
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Southern States. |
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Fathers and sons -- Poetry.
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Fathers and sons. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Homosexuality. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014025507
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Saeed. Poems. Selections. Prelude to bruise. First edition. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014 9781566893749 (DLC) 2014008086 (OCoLC)897092630 |
| ISBN |
9781566893848 (electronic book) |
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1566893844 (electronic book) |
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9781566893749 (paperback) |
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1566893747 (paperback) |
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