The Tenant of Fire: Poems: Pitt Poetry Series
Autor Ryan Blacken Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2019
Winner of the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeThe Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY—its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book—Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans—were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic.
The young white speaker of these poems works to record his parents’ and neighbors’, both white and of color, and his own attempts at navigating a shifting landscape. In poems on the homecoming of Vietnam vets, or the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, or the firebombing of Malcolm X’s house, The Tenant of Fire explores how and why the plurality of a place like Queens, where now nearly two hundred languages are spoken, is viewed as a threat to national security.
The young white speaker of these poems works to record his parents’ and neighbors’, both white and of color, and his own attempts at navigating a shifting landscape. In poems on the homecoming of Vietnam vets, or the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, or the firebombing of Malcolm X’s house, The Tenant of Fire explores how and why the plurality of a place like Queens, where now nearly two hundred languages are spoken, is viewed as a threat to national security.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822965909
ISBN-10: 0822965909
Pagini: 85
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10: 0822965909
Pagini: 85
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Pitt Poetry Series
Recenzii
"Black offers a personal perspective on Queens, New York, in wide-gauged, acutely observed, conversational poems that often feel like stories or essays. The result is not so much nostalgia as re-creation, affording us the particularities of the setting." —Library Journal
"Ryan Black has written poems of enormous urgency for our time: at once a blistering critique of racism and xenophobia in America, and an equally blistering critique of the high- and middle-brow condescensions that sequester us all in cultural spheres that might as well be holding cells. . . . In a dark time, mindfulness and generous connection are the only possible recourse. Death of a Nativist gives me heart." —Linda Gregerson, from her Introduction to his chapbook Death of a Nativist
"Ryan Black is an exquisite craftsman whose material, I think, is time. The sounds it makes: of a speaker losing and accumulating breath in his attempts to record a personal and familial history of Queens, New York. That record is fleeting, fugitive, shaped by, and interested in, white, racialized (and thus violatory) conditions. These elegiac, capacious poems carry conflicting assertions. They are poems of reckoning and ‘awful silence.’ What species of fire can such friction create?" —Aracelis Girmay
“Plenty of poems are written about Manhattan and Brooklyn but not many about the outer boroughs of New York City. Ryan Black's excellent poems grow from his experience of south Queens, a place of varied ethnicity and economic classes, and such landmarks as Victory Field and Forest Park. That’s to say: a part of the City unknown to most tourists.” —Ed Ochester
“There are books that you read, put away, and only return to when you are browsing your bookshelves, perhaps in search of another book.And there are books like Ryan Black’s The Tenant of Fire that you have no choice but to sit with, think about, and go back to immediately, hoping you captured every detail.” —Heavy Feather Review
Notă biografică
Ryan Black is the author of Death of a Nativist, winner of the 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Linda Gregerson. He has published previously in AGNI, The Journal, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, The Millay Colony for the Arts, PLAYA, and the Queens Council on the Arts. He is the Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Queens College.
Extras
Home by the Sea
I can’t turn around and put up a flag and say, “I have no place to go.”
Chief Dennis Diggins
Bureau of Waste Disposal, DSNY
From bridge view, from snow-packed
rock. Seagirt to West End. The crude
signs nailed to garage doors, inked
on windshields, Looters will be crucified.
November: an Old World threat. A FEMA
truck stutters by on a busted axle. Drywall,
plumbing, dining set, bureau. Nine days
passed. At Fitzgerald Gym, two mothers
braid their children’s hair with Vaseline.
On state-issued cots below the free
throw line.