Refuse: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music

• | Author: Julian Randall
• | Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: September 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822965607
• | ISBN-13: 9780822965602