Refuse
Author | : Julian Randall |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780822986171 |
ISBN-13 | : 0822986175 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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