Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book "rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant." This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/28/2017
ISBN: 9780300223965
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/2017
Booklist 03/15/2017 pg. 15
Library Journal 02/15/2017