Refuse: Poems

Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/18/2018
ISBN: 9780822965602
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/2018 pg. 29