Date of birth : poems /
The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse and addiction, incest and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness, for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the m...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Persea Books,
[2023].
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| Summary: | The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse and addiction, incest and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness, for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the members of her childhood cohort in Atlantic City. If Date of Birth is heart-wrenching in its journalistic reporting of suffering, it is also a testament to the strength and resilience of the figures it portrays. |
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| Item Description: | "A Karen & Michael Braziller book." |
| Physical Description: | ix, 68 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0892555696 9780892555697 |