Taylor Courtney Faye - Concentrate Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic debut Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under - told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins a fifteen - year - old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner Soon Ja Du after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins's murder and the following trial which resulted in no prison time for Du were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and came to exemplify the long - fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage - like approach to collective history and storytelling Taylor's poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against and between women of color. Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts micro - essays and visual poems merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood's relentless refusal to be unseen even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor's inventive intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. Concentrate she writes. We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make.
Title: Concentrate Poems
Author(s): Taylor Courtney Faye
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452103
Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/1/2022
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets