Mr. West

Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye Wests life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebritiesto their portrayal in the mediaand how we sometimes find great private meaning in another persons public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blakes aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online readers companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu. See more