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Douglas Kearney

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Obras de Douglas Kearney

Patter (2014) 23 copias
Sho (2021) 21 copias
The Black Automaton (2009) 20 copias
Buck Studies (2016) 17 copias
Fear, some (2006) 16 copias
Mess And Mess And (2015) 8 copias
Optic Subwoof (2022) 5 copias
Someone Took They Tongues (2016) 3 copias
Anthem (collapsing) (2001) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2005) — Contribuidor — 200 copias
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contribuidor — 174 copias
The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contribuidor — 96 copias
The Best American Poetry 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 80 copias
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
The Best American Poetry 2020 (2020) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Poetry Magazine Vol. 204 No. 5, September 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 5 copias

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Conocimiento común

Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA

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In this collection Kearney is largely looking at the African-American experience from the inside. Some may not be specific to African-Americans--the poems reflect American experience--but it all fits together.

Most of these I did not really get. References to movies and TV, music, the usual of poets referencing other poets. He uses a lot of word play, so understanding can be complicated. You have to get the references to know what he is talking about, let alone how it fits.

My favorite is "Eulogy for a Pair of Kicks", which is funny and clever, and I understood. I suspect most of these poems are this clever if you catch his references. Here we have wordplay on different types of shoes, different parts of shoes, uses of shoes, advertising of different brands. "It's gotta be the—!"… (más)
 
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Dreesie | Jan 24, 2022 |
Kearney's Buck Studies refashions and expands the methods and aims of his earlier work, his talents for collage and performative disruption and vision regarding the black male experience is sorely needed in a post-Trayvon world that mainstreams white supremacy. This is a mature and realized collection that is confrontational but musical, somber and ecstatic by turns and some of the best output yet from Kearney.
 
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poetontheone | otra reseña | Jun 16, 2018 |
"Buck Studies" is "a potent cocktail of political anger and radical formal experimentation.”

Review available at the New York Journal of Books:

http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/buck-studies
 
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kswolff | otra reseña | Jan 30, 2017 |
Kearney's poetry collection breaks out of form with song, humor, and unflincihing interrogation. While referencing dead, white Modernists like Elliot and Pound, he overturns paradigms and works ravenously and disjointedly experiments with font, space, and form (or formlessness) in order to articulate the his emotional and intellectual insights on black experience.. A fearless and innovative poetics investigating black consciousness.
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poetontheone | Sep 7, 2016 |

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13
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Miembros
118
Popularidad
#167,490
Valoración
4.1
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
11

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