Refuse /

"Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, Julian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Thousand Cardinals
  • Biracial Ghazal: Why Everything Ends in Blood
  • This Land Is Where We Buried Everything That Came Before You: African American History and Concepts of Ownership in Early Elementary Education
  • Friday Night Lights #1
  • In A Rare Moment of Nostalgia My Father Reflects on Obama's First Inauguration
  • Taxonomy Regarding My Mother
  • I Think Everybody Has a Year They Never Really Leave
  • Summer After
  • Elegy for the Winter after Taina Was Cancelled; Chicago*
  • Wasn't the Minotaur Buried Horns First: Vulnerability and Identity in the Mythic Body
  • Poem about Trees That Is Not Actually a Poem about Trees
  • Nearly 7 Years after the Fact a Boy Whose Nose I Nearly Broke Hits Me Up for Brunch
  • In the Netflix Trailer Obama Says ""I Don't"" Fit in Anywhere"" While Anthony Hamilton Pulls a Burning City Out of His Mouth
  • Obama Says ""Mutts Like Me"" in the Mirror Every Morning While I Get Ready for School
  • Academy of Acceptable Loss
  • Pregame Prayer with Complete Citations
  • Coverage
  • You Got McDonald's Money?
  • Friday Night Lights #20
  • Friday Night Lights #51
  • Spook Who Sat by the Once Bombed City: Psychological Explorations of Ancestral Memory Through the Lens of Racial Battle Trauma
  • Space Between Skins Is Called a Wound
  • Translation
  • On The Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents
  • (Self) Inflicted
  • Frank Ocean Sighting #268: Frank Ocean Is Rumored to Speak of Rivers Which Is Likely a Lie (Disc 1)
  • Narcissus
  • Author Is Often Mistaken for Obama's Long Lost Son
  • Insomniac Soliloquy
  • My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 1
  • Portrait of My Father as Sisyphus
  • My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 2
  • Palinopsia
  • Police Dream #607
  • Palinopsia
  • Elegy for the Summer after Django Unchained Came Out on DVD
  • Palinopsia
  • Regrets; Ghazal for the Suicidal Thought
  • Palinopsia
  • Search for Frank Ocean or a Brief History of Disappearing
  • Variation on a Theme of Genetics
  • Leslie Odom Jr. Sings Obama's Anger on NPR
  • Mercy, Mercy, Him
  • Tanka for the 4th of July
  • Zealots of Stockholm or Elegy for the Still Alive
  • Obama Wants to Be Clear about His Legacy
  • Obama Speaks of Rivers but We Have Always Been on Different Shores
  • Negrotopia #3
  • Sad Nigga Manifesto.