Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gates, Theaster, 1973-

Description

1. xi, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

1. "The "blk alter" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, "neckbone: visual verses." Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch, paint brush, metaphor, and narrative of arresting visual metaphors of childhood teachings and traumas, identity, and the personal reverence of pop culture's beauty and beast. A mastermind in a new language of poetry, that engages and challenges readers to see beyond the traditional spaces poems are shaped and exist, Young's neckbone extends tentacles in literature, art, and activism--redefining the collective and the sermon of the "blk" experience"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform title

1. Poems. Selections

Alternative title

1. Poems.

Subject

1. African Americans > Social conditions
2. African Americans > Social conditions > Poetry
3. Poetry
4. Black author
5. American poetry > African American authors

Genre/Form

1. American poetry – African American authors.
2. Poetry.

Contents

1. Artist's statement -- Foreword / by Theaster Gates -- Englewood '79: lil blk erything become(s) a creative -- & in 3rd grade lil blk erything write(s) him 1st poem -- Summer '87 -- & in dis dream its 1950 -- Uncle shot teach(es) lil blk erything how stand up & pee -- 2005 (or so) -- Gotta dark skin(id) frien(d) look like racheldolezal: a gospel -- De day nina-baby learn(t) how to work her email -- 1998: lil bruh get(s) to know a nina simone song -- Titletrac(k) -- & den billie sho(s) up in yo dream(s) singin in de key of cuss word(s) & knuckle(s) blk! -- Read: lady sing(s) the blue(s) -- After lady sing(s) de blue(s) (1) -- After lady sing(s) de blue(s) (2) -- Dat one time tae & rah get into it over a pot of neckbone(s) -- Best practice: on teachin how folk to be blk -- 2084: J. boogie baldwin become(s) de editor in chief of de nigga faggot -- Sirblkalot lay(s) a wick(id) night in him dark(iss) ink -- In de company of us (cave canem) -- To be a fly on de wallpaper of life -- On de nex(t) episode bout dude, or gotta light skin(id) frien(d) look like racheldolezal -- Dem time(s) when esther use(d) skinRite complexion correckor to look like josephine baker &/or Elizabeth -- One day I'm gonna write/produce/& direc(t) a movie call(d) ...cattle -- Lil blk erything learn(s) what blk boys cant do in gangway(s) -- Thirteen --Nina-baby teach(is) me how to bop & step -- On how not to look like de help in de mids(t) of dem n'em.

Call number

1. Sc F 19-314

Author

1. young, avery r., author.

Title

1. Neckbone : visual verses / avery r. young ; foreword by theaster gates.

Publisher

1. Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Gates, Theaster, 1973- writer of foreword.

LCCN

1. 2019005649

ISBN

1. 9780810140523 hardcover text alkaline paper
2. 0810140527 hardcover text alkaline paper
3. 9780810140530 (trade paper : alk. paper)
4. 0810140535

Research call number

1. Sc F 19-314