Malcolm
Heed the Hollow: Poems
- ISBN 13:
- 9781644450093
- author:
- Malcolm
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Printed Publication
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 88
- Dimensions:
- 22.6 x 15 x 1 centimetres (0.39
- Genre:
- Poetry, American, African American,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Heed the Hollow Poems is a powerful debut from Malcolm Tariq, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. This collection explores the concept of "the bottom" across blackness, sexuality, and the American South.
The poems delve into queer desire, meeting the voices of enslaved ancestors to reckon with a lineage of trauma that manifests as silence, pain, and haunting memories. Yet, they also speak of want and love, reclaiming histories from a language that has excluded them.
Through bops, lyrics, and erasures, Heed the Hollow tells of a heritage anchored to the landscape of the coastal South, where forced labor shaped seawalls and people were "marked into the bottom / of history". The voices in these poems make their own brightness from this shadow, reclaiming their stories.
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