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The award-winning poet''s darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt system

Lyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster''s debut aims its sights at the words and images that shape us and the corrupt forces that stand in the way of our freedom. Stereo(TYPE) is a reckoning and a force. It is a revision of our most sacred mythologies - and a work of documentary poetry reporting from Mixon-Webster''s hometown of Flint, Michigan, where untainted tap water is still not guaranteed and the legacies of racist policies persist.

Challenging stereotypes through scenes scattered with satire, violence, and the extreme vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster explores the places where space and body, race and region and sexuality and class meet and intersect. He invents visual/sonic forms, recasts poems as FAQs and transcripts, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies. Interrogating language and t

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 5 August 2021
      ISBN-13 9780141996370
      978-0141996370
      ISBN-10 0141996374
      Also in:
      Poetry Social discrimination and social justice

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The award-winning poet''s darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt system

      Lyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster''s debut aims its sights at the words and images that shape us and the corrupt forces that stand in the way of our freedom. Stereo(TYPE) is a reckoning and a force. It is a revision of our most sacred mythologies - and a work of documentary poetry reporting from Mixon-Webster''s hometown of Flint, Michigan, where untainted tap water is still not guaranteed and the legacies of racist policies persist.

      Challenging stereotypes through scenes scattered with satire, violence, and the extreme vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster explores the places where space and body, race and region and sexuality and class meet and intersect. He invents visual/sonic forms, recasts poems as FAQs and transcripts, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies. Interrogating language and t

      Trade Review
      A master of experimentation . . . This work is alive

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