Song of gray
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Song of Gray approaches Black experience by clarifying the concrete worlds that exist between humanity and objecthood. Asha Futterman renders this in-between space as it reveals itself in performance: in a contemporary performance workshop, at an audition, in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in the dailiness of the YMCA, her porch, the walk to the train. These poems build new logic systems. Futterman stands at her grandmother's grave and proclaims, "how powerful how dense and naked how inaccurate." With quiet, deadpan, and piercing language, Song of Gray offers earnest, felt relationships to race, empathy, pleasure, and nonsense. "There wasn't a sunrise / just gray / then brighter gray," Futterman writes. In Song of Gray, blackness is not definite-it is an ambivalent hole as much as an area of hope. Blackness is a song of gray.--Provided by publisher.
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Winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry.
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Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.
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American poetry -- African American authors -- 21st century