I can't talk about the trees without the blood /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Clark, Tiana, author.
Imprint:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 112 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Pitt poetry series Pitt poetry series.
Subject:	African Americans -- Poetry. Blacks -- Race identity -- Poetry. American poetry -- 21st century. Blacks -- Race identity. African Americans. American poetry. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021020

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ISBN:	9780822986164 0822986167 0822965585 9780822965589
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 7, 2018).
Summary:	"For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can't Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past--she will always see blood on the leaves."--Publisher's website.
Awards:	Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

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