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Prelude to Bruise
Saeed Jones
- Jones is the editor of BuzzfeedLGBT and had an enormous audience both there and on social media (10k followers), as well as terrific connections in the poetry world
- Jones is a frequent guest of reading series (he headlined the Rumpus/Guernica holiday party with Geoff Dyer) and tireless self-promoter. He has fans, and he likes to get in front of them
- Jones' background speaks to so many different communities: he is a gay black Buddhist, raised in the South and California, and his poetry is deeply informed by what all those identities mean as they compete with and support each other
- Jones fits in nicely on our list, and should appeal to readers of Patricia Smith (she's a fan of his, and they share a similar slam poetry energy)
- The book, unlike much poetry, progresses through time, giving readers somewhat of a narrative to carry them along
Book details
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Collection
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781566893749
- LAN
- 7b9e8933f3cf
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