Tenant of Fire, The : Poems
by
Ryan Black
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10
0822965909
ISBN-13
9780822965909
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 10th, 2019
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.10 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / Poems
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Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY—its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book—Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans—were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works to record his parents’ and neighbors’, both white and of color, and his own attempts at navigating a shifting landscape. In poems on the homecoming of Vietnam vets, or the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, or the firebombing of Malcolm X’s house, The Tenant of Fire explores how and why the plurality of a place like Queens, where now nearly two hundred languages are spoken, is viewed as a threat to national security.
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