Fantasia for the Man in Blue

Fantasia for the Man in Blue
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Publisher : Stahlecker Selections
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 1945588497
ISBN-13 : 9781945588495
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Book Synopsis Fantasia for the Man in Blue by : Tommye Blount

Download or read book Fantasia for the Man in Blue written by Tommye Blount and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2020 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of a brutal America through the voices of its most vulnerable sons. In his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer - the titular "man in blue" - becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous, erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected here in a suite of poems, addresses the contradiction between his public persona and a life spent largely in the closet: "It's a calling, this hunger / to sing for a love I'm too ashamed to want for myself." In "Aaron McKinney Cleans His Magnum," the convicted killer imagines the barrel of the gun he used to bludgeon Matthew Shepherd as an "infant's small mouth" as well as the "sad calculator" that was "built to subtract from and divide a town." In these and other poems, Blount viscerally captures the experience of the "other" and locates us squarely within these personae"--

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