Description
Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Finalist for the 2017 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. NO DICTIONARY OF A LIVING TONGUE is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic networks that define us, hold us together, bind us. The poems here take many forms—prose, lyric, epigram, narrative, dialogue fragment, song, musical score, fairy tale, and dictionary entry. An elegant use of sound couples with a keen and roving intelligence and a fierce commitment to social justice to create a unique and powerful collection of poems.
"In this necessary new collection, Duriel E. Harris has created a primer on citizenship. NO DICTIONARY OF A LIVING TONGUE is a living archive, collecting the muscles, senses, and narratives of a life. This is a stunning achievement, at once proprioceptive, visceral, destabilizing, and visionary."—Claudia Rankine
Author Bio
Poet, sound artist, and scholar Duriel E. Harris is the author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, including DRAG (Elixir Press, 2003) and NO DICTIONARY OF LIVING TONGUE (Nightboat Books, 2017), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award finalist. Harris is Professor of English at Illinois State University and Editor of Obsidian.
Author City: Chicago, IL USA