Sho
Sho is an experimental poetry collection that uses Black vernacular, sonic repetition, and visual page design. It foregrounds bodily sensation and linguistic leaps, pushing poetry toward performance.
Work Information
An experimental collection built to be read through sound and body.
The poems turn language into sound while moving across Black culture, violence, humor, and everyday life. The page layout itself generates meaning and makes reading physical.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Published
- 2021-04-06
- Pages
- 104 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.78 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781950268153
- ISBN-10
- 1950268152
- Price
- 3019 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY 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.
Douglas Kearney has published six collections, including Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and the California Book Award silver medal (Poetry). M. NourbeSe Philip calls Kearney’s collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito, 2016), “a seismic, polyphonic mash-up.” Kearney’s Mess and Mess And (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publisher’s Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
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