Sho, Douglas Kearney
Sho, Douglas Kearney
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Sho

Author: Douglas Kearney

Narrator: Douglas Kearney

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wave Books

Published: 02/15/2025


Synopsis

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.*** 2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

In past collections, Douglas Kearney has explored the frontiers of performative typography, where poetry is in a sense actually performed on the page. Sho is a bit of a departure in that it is a more straightforward work with verses that are, for me, more accessible. This works well because many of......more

These poems shine. Brilliant collection from Kearney.......more

Goodreads review by Nadine

This collection was, alas, not for me, though I loved some the rhythms and intonations, the flow of these poems. I am not great with poetry that is abstract and abstruse, where deciphering meaning is next to impossible. Kearney is obviously a poet of great skill and I respect him. But this just wasn......more