Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis

Boy with Thorn

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Boy with Thorn

University of Pittsburgh Press

Boy with Thorn

by Rickey Laurentiis

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 In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himself--confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822963813
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
104
Authors:
Rickey Laurentiis
Published Date:
2015-09-09
Language:
English
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About Rickey Laurentiis

Born in New Orleans, Rickey Laurentiis won both the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize for the debut collection Boy with Thorn (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). The second book, Death of the First Idea (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025), was longlisted for the National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Laurentiis earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and has held fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, Laurentiis lives in New Orleans.

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