Refuse

By Julian Randall and Julian Randall

Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965607
• ISBN13: 9780822965602
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"