House Envy of All the World

by Simone White

Poetry. African American Studies. Is all black desire corrupt? If American aspiration is linked to the desire to have whiteness, be male and make money, what, now, can a decent person want? Family, death, power, Poetry and blackness--each is implicated in a general failure of perfection and subjected to furious lyric rethinking in Simone White's work; a poetry of ideas where "the whole limbic system [becomes] an event," "decorous" and profane, precise and bewildered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600010717
• ISBN13: 9781600010712
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Factory School
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up