The award-winning poet's darkly riotous debut,exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt systemLyrical,loud and radically urgent,Jonah Mixon-Webster's debut aims its sights at the words and images that shape us and the corrupt forces that stand in the way of our freedom. Stereo(TYPE) is a reckoning and a force. It is a revision of our most sacred mythologies - and a work of documentary poetry reporting from Mixon-Webster's hometown of Flint,Michigan,where untainted tap water is still not guaranteed and the legacies of racist policies persist.Challenging stereotypes through scenes scattered with satire,violence,and the extreme vagaries of everyday life,Mixon-Webster explores the places where space and body,race and region and sexuality and class meet and intersect. He invents visual/sonic forms,recasts poems as FAQs and transcripts,and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies. Interrogating language and the ways we wield it as both sword and shield,Stereo(TYPE) is a rapturous collection of vital and beautiful poems.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141996370Number of pages: 112Weight: 123 gDimensions: 198 x 153 x 8 mm
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