Silencer
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N26Z4JP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 375 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In poem after poem, and with one of the best ears in the game, Wicker demonstrates the simple and difficult truth that we, as Americans, make each other, inescapably—Wicker’s America is a black America because it is America. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless–Wicker’s mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman. There is the quiet, ironic pleasure of life on a cul-de-sac juxtaposed with the tensions of always wondering when a police officer's gun or fists might get in the way of the black body. Wicker’s poems have the wit and rhythmic muscle to push back against the institutional flim-flam. Wicker’s highly-anticipated second collection snaps to attention with a soundtrack full of salty swagger and a most skillful use of formal inventions that’ll surely k
Pushing our ideas of traditions and expectations, these poems and queries work in concert towards creating a new dialectic.. Precisely contradictory, bittersweet, witty, and heartbreaking, Silencer is where the political and the personal collide. Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Oddisee meet traditional verse in this urgent collection of poems by Pushcart winner and NAACP Image Award finalist Marcus Wicker Welcome to Marcus Wicker’s Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police brutality in twenty-first-century America. Driven by the sounds of hip-hop and reimagined forms and structures, Wicker's explosive second book is composed of poems at war with themselves, verses in which the poet questions his own faith in God, in hope, in the American Dream, and in himself