Tawanda Mulalu

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Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: PoemsHardcover, 13 September 2022

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems
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Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets
Print Length
104 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
13 Sep 2022
ISBN-10
0691239029
ISBN-13
9780691239026

Description

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor.

The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring--one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."

Product Details

Author:
Tawanda Mulalu
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 September 2022
Dimensions:
15.75 x 23.62 x 1.27 cm
Genre:
African American
ISBN-10:
0691239029
ISBN-13:
9780691239026
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
104
Weight:
294.83 gm

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