Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Author(s): Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin's Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived experience. Martin writes poems that seek out moments when the box buckles, or breaks, poems that suggest there is more. Life in a Box is a Pretty Life continues Martin's investigation into what is produced in the interstices between the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black (or female, or queer) in contemporary America.
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DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is the author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (2007) and DISCIPLINE (2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for both Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She is a member the experimental black poetry and performance group, the Black Took Collective, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
General Fields
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- : Nightboat Books
- : Nightboat Books
- : 19 February 2015
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dawn Lundy Martin
- : Paperback
- : 811.6
- : 80
