Made to Explode: Poems

by Sandra Beasley

Book Overview

In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson's shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393531600
• ISBN13: 9780393531602
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"