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The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself

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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, sponsored by The National Book Foundation

Longlisted for the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize

Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, sponsored by the Claremont Graduate School

Named One of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library

Longlisted for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, sponsored by Swansea University

“Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.”—Carl Phillips, from the Foreword

“Desiree C. Bailey sings true in her debut What Noise Against the Cane. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it transfiguring what a maroon might overhear—a call awaiting response.”—Yusef Komunyakaa

What Noise Against the Cane 115 Yale Series of

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780300256536, 978-0300256536
      ISBN10: 0300256531

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself

      Trade Review
      Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, sponsored by The National Book Foundation

      Longlisted for the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize

      Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, sponsored by the Claremont Graduate School

      Named One of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library

      Longlisted for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, sponsored by Swansea University

      “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.”—Carl Phillips, from the Foreword

      “Desiree C. Bailey sings true in her debut What Noise Against the Cane. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it transfiguring what a maroon might overhear—a call awaiting response.”—Yusef Komunyakaa

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