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I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8616-4 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6558-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3603.L36925I33 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Winner of the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award For prize-winning 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. See other books on: African American & Black | American poetry | Black people | Clark, Tiana | Race identity See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press |
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I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8616-4
Paper: 978-0-8229-6558-9
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8616-4
Paper: 978-0-8229-6558-9
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
For prize-winning 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.
Winner of the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
For prize-winning 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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