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Sho | Douglas Kearney
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Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his "stove-like imagination," Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
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Words of all sorts zinging in every direction, poetry of the voice and of the gut, of the brain and of drama, and play, and imagery and stereotypes and deep frustration, this collection is profound, agonized, comical, just, so wide-ranging. Kearney should be a staple for anyone interested in how language is being pushed in the twenty-first century.

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