A01=Justin Phillip Reed
Achilles
african american
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Justin Phillip Reed
automatic-update
black queerness
bodily hunger
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DCF
Category=JBSL
COP=United States
counterviolent spirit
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
eq_society-politics
free verse
Gorgons
greek myth
horror
intersectional politics
Language_English
Lorelei
marginalized people
meditative reflections on memory
mythology
PA=Available
poetry
pop culture
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
remakes western literature
revenant animus
softlaunch
sophomore book
the Bible
Product details
- ISBN 9781566895767
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2020
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime.
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.
Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet and essayist. He is the author of Indecency (Coffee House Press), winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is the 2019-2021 Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His work appears in African American Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, the New Republic, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He earned his BA in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. He was born and raised in South Carolina.
