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Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die : Poems by Tawanda Mulalu (2022, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691239037
ISBN-139780691239033
eBay Product ID (ePID)18057250627

Product Key Features

Book TitlePlease Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die : Poems
Number of Pages104 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicAmerican / African American, General
GenrePoetry
AuthorTawanda Mulalu
Book SeriesPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight6.1 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-000488
ReviewsThe collection's energy is constant, and some of the poems' most straightforward moments are the most affecting. . . . A sharp, playful, and thoughtful work for poetry lovers., "Tawanda Mulalu's first book is an energetic and energizing assemblage of restlessly shifting modes, juggling forms and shuffling styles. The linguistic playfulness that animates his poems conceals neither their serious intent nor their underlying melancholy." ---Troy Jollimore, Washington Post, A sensory and exciting debut. . . . These inventive, lyrical, and well-crafted poems offer memorable insights at every turn., These fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. . . . [ Please make me pretty, I don't want to die ] presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring-one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image.
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number170
Dewey Decimal811.6
SynopsisThe debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring--one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country.", The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring-one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."
LC Classification NumberPS3613.U4225P54 2022

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