Shadow Black
Naima Yael Tokunow’s Shadow Black, chosen by Jericho Brown as the 2019 Winner of the Frontier Chapbook Contest, is one of those rare collections...
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Naima Yael Tokunow’s Shadow Black, chosen by Jericho Brown as the 2019 Winner of the Frontier Chapbook Contest, is one of those rare collections that punctures its reader with singular focus and force, lingering in the body like an unseen bruise. “I do not make Shadow Blacks, but I record them. On all of our bodies,” Tokunow writes. The work orbits around this figure, the poignant Shadow Black, a monster of racialized imagination—and investigates the central question: what does it mean to be seen while black in America? to “come up from the grave buzzing”? Tokunow is a poet of the body, searching every bit of flesh, soft and hard, for the reality of its history, of its wounds and its resurrections: including Charleston, including child birth, including the deaths of young black boys at the hands of police and headless girls forgotten, unclaimed.
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- Publication:2020
- Publisher:Frontier Poetry
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- Language:eng
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