Best Barbarian : poems /
"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity-climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and er...
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Grendel
- Without the pelt of a lion
- Children listen
- Standing in the Atlantic
- The alphabet, for Naima
- In rehearsal for the funeral
- Sovereign silence, or The city
- Cocaine and gold
- Rat among the pines
- American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon
- Into the West
- The broken fields mended
- After the funeral
- Echo: from the mountains
- so, Ecstasy
- After death
- Cyclops and Balthazar
- Mother's Day
- Second plague year, black spots on the rose
- Poem, in an old language
- The end of Ghassan Kanafani
- Domestic violence
- Something about John Coltrane
- Ode to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a lemon"
- Rich Black, or Best barbarian
- Prayer of the jaguar
- Drapetomania, or James Baldwin as an improvisation
- Grendel's mother
- "EspiÌ?ritu santo tambieÌ?n..."
- Fragment 107
- American runner
- Best Barabbas
- My Folks
- Leaf-Sigh and Bray
- Caught in a Black doorway
- As a child of North America
- Future, from beyond the voice of God
- By beauty, from beyond the voice of God
- Your hand to your face blocking the sun
- I can drink the distance, or Fire in the lake
- Journey to Satchidananda
- For Black children at the end of the world--and the beginning.