Bibliograph

I can't talk about the trees without the blood, Tiana Clark

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I can't talk about the trees without the blood, Tiana Clark

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-108)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

I can't talk about the trees without the blood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1032021250

Responsibility statement

Tiana Clark

Series statement

Pitt poetry series

Summary

"For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can't Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past--she will always see blood on the leaves"--Publisher's website

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I cannot talk about the trees without the blood

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