"The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2021"--Half title page. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Lilting. Tenderness -- Is This or Is This True as Happiness -- Twitter Break: I Watch a Movie -- Dorian Corey -- The Witching Hour -- Late Summer -- Proverb -- Flies -- Thinking of Romanticism, Thinking of Drake -- To Friendship -- Letter to Brandon -- Birth Chart -- My Education -- Little Epic -- Epithalamium -- The Devil's Book -- Hotline Bling (Voicemail) -- Black Docent -- Villiers -- Black Dandy -- Dear & Decorations -- Remembering God After Three Years of Depression -- Let Them Be Not What They Were Made For -- Cachet & Compassion -- Letter to Cody on Walpurgisnacht -- Sadness Isn't the Only Muse -- Son Jarocho -- Epithalamium -- The Marina -- Cumberland Island -- Knight of Cups -- Exegesis as Self-Elegy -- Black Magdalene -- January 2017 -- Blue Core -- The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood -- Poem for Julián -- "And Also with You" -- Object Label -- Taking My Father and Brother to the Frick -- Lilting.
Summary:
"The insights of a young, queer Black man from the South surviving depression and building a poet's life in modern-day America"-- Provided by publisher.
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