Neckbone

Visual Verses
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8101-4052-3
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

The ""blk alter"" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch, paint brush, metaphor, and narrative of arresting visual metaphors of childhood teachings and traumas, identity, and the personal reverence of pop culture's beauty and beast. A mastermind in a new language of poetry, that engages and challenges readers to see beyond the traditional spaces poems are shaped and exist, Young's neckbone extends tentacles in literature, art, and activism-redefining the collective and the sermon of the ""blk"" experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Avery R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 3rd grade lil blkerything writes him first poem
- 1982: donna summer 9before de good lawd was in her bidness
- ars poetica 
-. pickin up leave(s)
- [kittahawa's lullaby] 
- mama thomas dies.
- title track
- labelle I
- aunt esther us(es) skin-rite complexion corekk(or) to look like Josephine Baker &/or Elizabeth
- big mama in the shoe store 
- father's day
- [billie holiday]
- booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid
- dick gregory poem
- emory draw(s) a puddy tat
- labelle II
- fly on wallpaper 
- nina & fat fight
- fount nina simone
- race muzik (e.z. to produce) - alternate take
- funk & wagnalls
- labelle III
- rodney king
- gotta lightskin(id) friend look like Rachel Dolezal
- souse
- uncle perry teaches me to pee
-  after paul mooney
-  13
- Audio
- race muzik (e.z. to produce)
- lament
- groun(d)
- lead in de wattah
- if
- pigeons are blk doves
- one step
- emmett (til de remix)

Über Autor(innen)

Avery R. Young is best known as a poet, songwriter, performer, and multidisciplinary artist. He is also an award-winning teaching artist who mentors youth in creative writing and theater. He has been an Arts and Public Life Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago and has written curricula for Columbia College Chicago, Young Leeds Authors, True Star Magazine, and the Chicago Public Schools Art Integration Department. young's poems and essays on HIV awareness, misogyny, race records, and art integration have been published in The BreakBeat Poets, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, AIMPrint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning, and other anthologies.

His album booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid combines his poetry and sound design to discuss matters of race, gender, and sexuality in America during the Obama Era. Avery's work in performance, visual text, and sound design has been featured in several exhibitions and online publications-notably The Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and American Jazz Museum. He currently works as a teaching artist, mentoring Rebirth Youth Poetry Ensemble and performing with his band, de deacon board.