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Winner of the90th Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the2025 PEN/Voelcker AwardFinalist for theMidland Authors Award(Poetry)Longlisted for the 2024National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books bythe New York Public LibraryBlack history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity. Harrington's speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities.

Yard Show

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    A Paperback by Janice N Harrington

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      Publisher BOA Editions, Limited
      Published 28 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781960145314
      978-1960145314
      ISBN-10 1960145312
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

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      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the90th Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the2025 PEN/Voelcker AwardFinalist for theMidland Authors Award(Poetry)Longlisted for the 2024National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books bythe New York Public LibraryBlack history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity. Harrington's speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities.

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