Concentrate [electronic resource] : Poems
Courtney Faye Taylor2022
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Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of
the murder of Latasha Harlins-a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean
shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of
orange juice. Harlins's murder and the following trial, which resulted in no
prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising,
and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian
American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to
collective history and storytelling, Taylor's poems present a profound look into
the insidious points at which violence originates against-and between-women of
color.
Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found
texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order
to interrogate inexorable enco...
Main title:
Concentrate [electronic resource] : Poems / Courtney Faye Taylor
Author:
Courtney Faye Taylor, Author
Imprint:
New York : Graywolf Press, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (96 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781644451939
Language:
English
BRN:
435086
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |