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dc.contributor.authorFutterman, Asha, author
dc.contributor.authorThe Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-25T18:26:37Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionWinner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry.
dc.description.abstractSong 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.
dc.description.tableofcontentsi. it's nice to take drugs and sit in the hot tub but first you have to find your suit -- incident report -- performing -- mastery -- this year and every year -- repetition -- mastery -- i am the machine and i work -- broken lyre -- ii. empathy -- i feel connected to myself -- audition -- how to be a contemporary performer -- my type -- measure your savings -- halloween -- pain -- casade mausoleum -- we were promised a sunrise -- iii. petrification -- in my dreams my dad is cheating on my mom -- there is no neutral -- near north riverfront -- petrification -- nature -- being in a relationship -- real sounds -- petrification -- in Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- in a cave where something once happened -- *. greenwood district.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/243779
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofVarious Publishers
dc.rightsCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact The Center for Literary Publishing, attn: Permissions at creview@colostate.edu for use information.
dc.rights.accessAccess 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.
dc.subjectAmerican poetry -- African American authors -- 21st century
dc.titleSong of gray
dc.title.alternativeSong of gray: poems
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