Heed the Hollow : : Poems.
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Heed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South. These lyrics of queer desire meet the voices of enslaved ancestors to reckon with a lineage of trauma that manifests as silence, pain, and haunting memories, but also as want and love. In bops, lyrics, and erasures, Heed the Hollow tells of a heritage anchored to the landscape of the coastal South, to seawalls shaped by forced labor, and to the people “marked into the bottom / of history where then now / we find no shadow of life.” From that shadow, the voices in these poems make their own brightness, reclaiming their histories from a language that evolved to exclude them.
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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 111 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1644450097
9781644450093
SUBJECTS
Poetry.