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Blood Percussion

Nate Marshall

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Description:Nate Marshall’s Blood Percussion, a runner-up for the 2013 Button Poetry Prize.Books ship within 10 business days of order. — Nate Marshall was paying close attention when Chuck D said, “Rap is CNN for Black people.” Inhis hard-hitting chapbook, Blood Percussion, Marshall takes the Hard Rhymer’s words and masterfullyapplies them to poetry, turning his eye toward gun play, free lunches, skull caps, prayers, and praisesongs. With wit and fierce music, these poems take on the subjects that can’t find a space on theevening news, reminding the reader again and again that there is power and grace in truth-tellingeven when those truths are difficult to hear.–Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke — With language that swerves, spars, and startles, Nate Marshall’s Blood Percussion adamantly asks usto consider our youth as more than mere statistics or headlines. These poems fearlessly embodythe voices of boys and girls who grieve, wander, love, dream. In a world where appearances areconsistently privileged, Marshall’s poems remind us how necessary it is to render the interiors ofthose whose lives we cannot let slip into the cracks of the very sidewalks we all traverse.–Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam — What can be said? Blood Percussion is what it sounds like it is: A full body experience, poems that wail& juke in every register. Each page of this thing carries a lyric force that’ll make you sit upright orthrow the book against the wall or just sit there for a second, shook, wondering where all the roomin the room went. It’s not just that Nate Marshall can flat-out write. Yes, the formalistic elegance ofthese poems is certainly worth the price of admission all by itself, but there’s also a singular courageto this work, an engagement with the fullness of its characters’ lives that makes every stanza feel likecelebration in the face of danger on all sides, the beautiful refusal of dominant narratives that wouldseek to quell such fire, such love. These are poems to be read aloud and often. This is the difficultmusic we need.–Joshua Bennett, founding editor of Kinfolks QuarterlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blood Percussion. To get started finding Blood Percussion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 26

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0989641554

Description: Nate Marshall’s Blood Percussion, a runner-up for the 2013 Button Poetry Prize.Books ship within 10 business days of order. — Nate Marshall was paying close attention when Chuck D said, “Rap is CNN for Black people.” Inhis hard-hitting chapbook, Blood Percussion, Marshall takes the Hard Rhymer’s words and masterfullyapplies them to poetry, turning his eye toward gun play, free lunches, skull caps, prayers, and praisesongs. With wit and fierce music, these poems take on the subjects that can’t find a space on theevening news, reminding the reader again and again that there is power and grace in truth-tellingeven when those truths are difficult to hear.–Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke — With language that swerves, spars, and startles, Nate Marshall’s Blood Percussion adamantly asks usto consider our youth as more than mere statistics or headlines. These poems fearlessly embodythe voices of boys and girls who grieve, wander, love, dream. In a world where appearances areconsistently privileged, Marshall’s poems remind us how necessary it is to render the interiors ofthose whose lives we cannot let slip into the cracks of the very sidewalks we all traverse.–Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam — What can be said? Blood Percussion is what it sounds like it is: A full body experience, poems that wail& juke in every register. Each page of this thing carries a lyric force that’ll make you sit upright orthrow the book against the wall or just sit there for a second, shook, wondering where all the roomin the room went. It’s not just that Nate Marshall can flat-out write. Yes, the formalistic elegance ofthese poems is certainly worth the price of admission all by itself, but there’s also a singular courageto this work, an engagement with the fullness of its characters’ lives that makes every stanza feel likecelebration in the face of danger on all sides, the beautiful refusal of dominant narratives that wouldseek to quell such fire, such love. These are poems to be read aloud and often. This is the difficultmusic we need.–Joshua Bennett, founding editor of Kinfolks QuarterlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blood Percussion. To get started finding Blood Percussion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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