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Tim Seibles
In a language that is both frank and emotionally charged, this book wrestles with issues of family, race, religion, sexuality, and –more generally–the journey from innocence to hard-hearted experience. The…
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In this nimble, turbulent collection, one of America’s foremost African American poets probes the skin between childhood and adulthood.
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Poetry. Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect of death. Or…
Poetry. African American Studies. From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences…
Poetry. Tim Seibles’ version of our changing and growing American speech range widely, from anguish to comedy, from transcendence to earthly bewilderment. The joy of reading these poems is like…
Gretchen Primack (Gretchen Primack)
Kind is the kind of poetry book that makes you think differently about our world and the beings that inhabit it. Primack explores all facets of our lives with other…
