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I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)

Tiana Clark

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Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.

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Pages:: 112 pages

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Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0822965585

ISBN13:: 9780822965589

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I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)

Tiana Clark

4.53/5 (705 ratings)

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Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.

Format:

Pages:: 112 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0822965585

ISBN13:: 9780822965589

kindle Asin:: B07KBCDX5P

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