Spectral Evidence Poems

Free Download Gregory Pardlo, "Spectral Evidence: Poems"
English | ISBN: 1524731781 | 2024 | 128 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic

Elegant, profound, and intoxicating-Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department ("flames rose like orchids . . . / blocks lay open like egg cartons"); and more.
At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal,
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