Research Catalog

Title

Fantasia for the man in blue / Tommye Blount.

Author

Blount, Tommye

Publication

Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2020]

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Details

Description

139 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"An examination of a brutal America through the voices of its most vulnerable sons. In his debut collection, Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer - the titular "man in blue" - becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous, erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected here in a suite of poems, addresses the contradiction between his public persona and a life spent largely in the closet: "It's a calling, this hunger / to sing for a love I'm too ashamed to want for myself." In "Aaron McKinney Cleans His Magnum," the convicted killer imagines the barrel of the gun he used to bludgeon Matthew Shepherd as an "infant's small mouth" as well as the "sad calculator" that was "built to subtract from and divide a town." In these and other poems, Blount viscerally captures the experience of the "other" and locates us squarely within these personae"--

Subject

• American poetry
• African Americans > Poetry
• Gender identity > Poetry
• Gender identity
• African Americans

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

Sc E 21-154

ISBN

• 9781945588495
• 1945588497

LCCN

2019031755

OCLC

1122682210

Author

Blount, Tommye, author.

Title

Fantasia for the man in blue / Tommye Blount.

Publisher

Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-154