Refuse
Book - 2018
"Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
-
Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 90 pages ; 23 cm
- Awards
- Cave Canem Poetry Prize, 2017
- ISBN
- 9780822965602
- Icarus
- A Thousand Cardinals
- Biracial Ghazal: Why Everything Ends in Blood
- This Land Is Where We Buried Everything That Came Before You: African American History and Concepts of Ownership in Early Elementary Education
- Friday Night Lights #1
- In A Rare Moment of Nostalgia My Father Reflects on Obama's First Inauguration
- Taxonomy Regarding My Mother
- I Think Everybody Has a Year They Never Really Leave
- Summer After
- Elegy for the Winter after Taina Was Cancelled
- Chicago
- Wasn't the Minotaur Buried Horns First: Vulnerability and Identity in the Mythic Body
- A Poem about Trees That Is Not Actually a Poem about Trees
- Nearly 7 Years after the Pact a Boy Whose Nose I Nearly Broke Hits Me Up for Brunch
- In the Netflix Trailer Obama Says "I Don't Fit in Anywhere" While Anthony Hamilton Pulls a Burning City Out of His Mouth
- Obama Says "Mutts Like Me" in the Mirror Every Morning While I Get Ready for School
- The Academy of Acceptable Loss
- Pregame Prayer with Complete Citations
- Coverage
- You Got McDonald's Money?
- Friday Night Lights #20
- Friday Night Lights #51
- The Spook Who Sat by the Once Bombed City: Psychological Explorations of Ancestral Memory Through the Lens of Racial Battle Trauma
- The Space Between Skins Is Called a "Wound
- Translation
- On The Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents
- (Self) Inflicted
- Frank Ocean Sighting #268: Frank Ocean Is Rumored to Speak of Rivers Which Is Likely a Lie (Disc 1)
- Narcissus
- The Author Is Often Mistaken for Obama's Long Lost Son
- Insomniac Soliloquy
- My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 1
- Portrait of My Father as Sisyphus
- My Father Watches Ferguson Vol. 2
- Palinopsia
- Police Dream #607
- Palinopsia
- Elegy for the Summer after Django Unchained Came Out on DVD
- Palinopsia
- Regrets
- Ghazalfor the Suicidal Thought
- Palinopsia
- The Search for Frank Ocean or a Brief History of Disappearing
- Variation on a Theme of Generics
- Leslie Odom Jr. Sings Obama's Anger on NPR
- Mercy, Mercy, Him
- Tanka for the 4th of July
- Zealots of Stockholm or Elegy for the Still Alive
- Obama Wants to Be Clear about His Legacy
- Obama Speaks of Rivers but We Have Always Been on Different Shores
- Negrotopia #3
- Sad Nigga Manifesto
- Acknowledgments