Poet Cedric L. Jones delivers his second collection.
A mixture of styles that include everything from traditional poetic forms to the influence of the Harlem Renaissance jazz poets, We Whisper, and other poems explores the maturation of an individual and a nation through the experiences and observations of a gay, Black man in America.
Excerpt
Calendar
I see my mortality
Neatly printed in blocks
Counting up to a countdown
As I stretch and crackle and think,
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
