This Is Not a Skyscraper

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte’s painting, “This is not a pipe,” these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs of outsiders live on the city’s margins, silenced. Among the grotesqueries of corruption, an African immigrant is killed by police in a case of mistaken identity. His disembodied voice introduces the book. Many of these poems attempt to speak for the “others” existing on the peripheral, whose perspectives have been abandoned.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-05-21
Mått152 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt181 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagRed Hen Press
ISBN9781597094160

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