Blood of the Air : Poems
by
Ama Codjoe
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
ISBN-10
081014171X
ISBN-13
9780810141711
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Imprint
Northwestern University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 30th, 2020
Print length
48 Pages
Weight
56 grams
Dimensions
12.60 x 17.70 x 0.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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This poetry collection creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention.
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem—one of several found poems—calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In “She Said,” the collection’s longest piece, language culled from the transcript of a seventeenth-century rape trial feels eerily familiar. Formally dexterous and refreshingly bold, the poems in Blood of the Air are urgent, moving, and fiercely imagined. Though blood can flow from the site of a wound, Codjoe seems to say, blood is also a sign of life.
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