PlayHouse : poems /
A poetic reckoning with the truths and failures of masculinity for Black boys and men in brotherhood, sonhood, and romance, all the while documenting moments of triumphant Black joy and love.
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Evanston, Illinois :
Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- House below the Heavens. Brotha speaks
- IEP
- Hustle hard
- Cut the grass
- Up a notch
- Acquisition : mothership
- Toyhouse
- Sleepover at Richard's : backyard
- Of the white tee
- Acquisition : boombox carried by Radio Raheem
- Cop a
- Pops's bounty
- Nine Mile Road
- Sunday before last
- Hymn
- Halfway Blues House. Ah Bae : blues haibun
- Acquisition : Coltrane's saxophone
- Sugar
- Honey
- Iced
- Tea
- Acquisition : dress from Lady sings the blues
- Snowfall with Ruth Brown's Bringdown
- Mean what I say
- A drive through July showers
- Day, dawn & dusk mess with my blues
- 4:04 a.m.
- Today got me
- Yesterday
- Apple pie
- Nah-nah : trap haibun
- Traphouse. In the house
- Oh brother, where did all the bullets go
- Anotha brotha
- Would
- When a tree falls
- After April 11, 2021
- Witness
- Blicky
- wat dey do
- Bando ballade
- Grey gah
- Notes on Kumite
- Payback gets played back
- Acquisition : Saul Williams's coded language scroll
- Ah-man
- Brotha moves
- When I go.