Dispatch: Poems

ISBN: 0892555033

Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron

Condition: New

Winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, Cameron Awkward-Richs intimate second book of poems attempts to reckon with and withstand American violence. Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day. These poems ask: What kind of revisions will make this a world/a story that is concerned with my peoples flourishing? How ought I pay attention, how to register perpetual bad news without letting it fatally intrude? Cameron Awkward-Rich is among the most bracing voices to emerge in recent years, a dazzling exemplar of poetrys (and humanitys) possibilities.