POOR

111.00 Dhs

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Résumé :

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, ROUGH TRADE AND THE BBC

‘Restlessly inventive, brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful . . . a landmark debut’ Guardian
‘Oh my God, he’s just stirring me. Destroying me’ Michaela Coel
‘A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy’ Max Porter
‘It’s simply stunning. Every image is a revelation’ Terrance Hayes

What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because ‘you fit the description of a man’ – and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?

In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.

Above all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: ‘I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.’

Caractéristiques :

EAN: 9780141992150
Catégorie
Poids 258.0 kg
Dimensions 132.0 × 200.0 × 12.0 cm
Date de parution

01/12/2020

Nb. de pages

160

Editeur

PENGUIN

ISBN

0141992150

Format

Paperback

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