Description: A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department (“flames rose like orchids . . . / blocks lay open like egg cartons”); and more. At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, Spectral Evidence compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice—and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: “If I could be / the forensic dreamer / . . . / . . . my art would be a mortician’s / paints.”
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Book Title: Spectral Evidence : Poems
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: American / African American, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Poetry, Social Science
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Gregory Pardlo
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
