Let it be broke /
"Experiential poems located in an America that is both cross-racial and transracial. The poems in Ed Pavlić's Let It Be Broke are ignited by sonic memories-from Chaka Khan on the radio to his teenaged daughter singing "Stay" at a local café-that spark a journey into personal and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tribeca :
Four Way Books,
[2020]
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| Summary: | "Experiential poems located in an America that is both cross-racial and transracial. The poems in Ed Pavlić's Let It Be Broke are ignited by sonic memories-from Chaka Khan on the radio to his teenaged daughter singing "Stay" at a local café-that spark a journey into personal and ontological questions. Pavlić's lyric lines are equal parts introspection and inter-spection, a term he coins for the shared rumination that encourages a collective "deep think" about the arbitrary boundaries that perpetuate racial and geographic segregation and the power of words to transcend those differences. In an epiphanic moment, Pavlić recalls a quote shared by a former teacher as "a hammer made of written words," and how he held "onto those words / as if they were steel bars and I was dangling over some bright black deepness.""-- |
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| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781945588457 1945588454 |