Concentrate: Poems by Taylor, Courtney Faye
Concentrate: Poems by Taylor, Courtney Faye

Concentrate: Poems

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic debut,...
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Author: Courtney Faye Taylor
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Language: English
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Concentrate: Poems by Taylor, Courtney Faye

Concentrate: Poems

$44.00
Concentrate: Poems by Taylor, Courtney Faye

Concentrate: Poems

$44.00
Author: Courtney Faye Taylor
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins--a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins's murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor's poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against--and between--women of color.

Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood's relentless refusal to be unseen, even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor's inventive, intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory, forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. "Concentrate," she writes. "We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make."

Author: Courtney Faye Taylor
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.60h x 7.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781644452103


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2022
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