All Black Everything
Published on 21. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-1-60938-923-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Shane Book's All Black Everything lyrics shine with work and the freedom of young people. Full of menace and humor, objects of warfare and luxury consumption are transformed with his blade of caustic irony against the world-wide nihilism of cash payments, guns, and disease. In their syncopated, slangy, and musically enjambed flow of the digital world, a poet known for singular collections has produced his most inventive and uncompromising volume yet. The political sublime of Caribbean poetics ebb and flood in this contagious new voice of borrowings, hijacking the trap house. An original collection, daring to assume the voice of the system and its death drives, having fun, mixing it up, throwing hands, too. If old pirates rob I, then Shane Book has stolen back something from them. All Black Everything is redemption song"--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-923-9 (9781609389239)
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Shane Book's Congotronic (Iowa, 2014) won the Archibald Lampman Award and was a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize. He is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.