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  title info:
    title: Tender headed
  name:
    name part: Osinaike, Olatunde
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 92 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The irony of transformation often is that we mistake it to have occurred long before it does. Tender Headed takes its time in asserting the realization that growth remains ever ahead of you. Examining the themes of Black identity, accountability and narration, we encounter a series of revealing snapshots into the role language plays in chiseling possibility and its rigid command of depiction. Olatunde Osinaike's startling debut sorts through the many-minded masks behind Black masculinity. At its center lies an inquiry about the puzzling nature of relationship, how ceaseless wonder can be in its challenge of a truth. In the name of music and self-identity, the speaker weaves their way through fault and how it amends Black life in America. This is demonstrated best in how the demanding, yet vulnerable tone for the collection is set in 'Men Like Me,' its restless opening poem. Here, we find the speaker reciting a chronicle of generational neglect from men that became him also. Earnest and sharp, there is a beauty in seeing a poet not shy away from both the melancholy and resolve of rescripting their path while cherishing their steps and missteps along the way. This collection is a panel aching of fathers, sons, uncles, grandfathers, all of whom would do well to join in and confront shared privileges that are typically curtailed or altogether avoided in conversation. Tender Headed entrusts the heart to be a compass, insisting on a journey unto itself and a melodic detour toward tenderness precise with its own footing.
  table of contents: Tenor -- Tremolo -- Forte.
  note: Olatunde Osinake.
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: African American men
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3615.S484 T46 2023
  classification: 811/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: National poetry series
  identifier: 9781636141411
  identifier: 1636141412
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230421
    record change date: 20240517181404.3
    record identifier: in00004765483