White bull
Book - 2022
"Composed entirely of words taken from the letters and public statements of the notorious segregationist Bull Connor, the poems in White bull use language that was wielded in violence and oppression to reckon with the present moment"--Back cover.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Louisville, KY :
Sarabande books
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xiv, 76 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Awards
- Kathryn A. Morton prize in poetry, 2020.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781946448828
- Machine generated contents note: I. A Call to Arms
- The Papers of Bull Connor
- Heave in Heaven
- The Belongings
- House of Bull
- Birmingham
- White Inks
- Less Than Zero
- Another Garden Crusade
- Girls of the Lake
- Choke Pear
- II. Bull Becomes a Leaf
- I Became a Postcard of Myself
- Laugh Track
- The Davids
- The Missing
- I Was Misty
- Bull in Office
- Bricking Up the Windows
- Stop Breathing
- Song for the Egg Filled with Nude Hose
- A Promise for the Egg Filled with Cotton Balls
- Bull flower
- Matinee
- The Still Life
- Say, Speak to Someone
- All That Is Holding Us Up
- A Beclouding
- III. The Statement
- Now Kiss the Word Lips on This Paper
- Bull, Unseen
- Black Ice
- Peach Preserves
- Peachtree Circle
- The Headache
- Play-by-Play
- A Finger Holds Down a Key
- Forever Bull
- Clemency
- Sister City
- Jefferson Memorial Gardens.