{"product_id":"buck-studies-paperback","title":"Buck Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place.--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDynamic poet, performer, librettist, and professor Douglas Kearney's works speak to those who are listening to what our living, material language has to say about race and history. At the hub of \u003ci\u003eBuck Studies \u003c\/i\u003eis a long mash-up of the stories of Herakles, the Greek bad-man, and that of Stagger Lee, the black bad-man. Stagger Put Work In examines the Twelve Labors Herakles performed to atone for murdering his family through Stagger Lee's murder of black man Billy Lyons. What is enacted by this appropriation is an exhaustion of forms--gangsta rap and its antecedent, the murder ballad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eonly good one dead one we scold our mirror. should've been dead\u003cbr\u003ebefore Stagger wrassled it bull-headed red-blind muscle-a-muscle.\u003cbr\u003ebully and bull stagger the city levee round round round. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kearney \u003c\/b\u003eresides in Altadena, California, and teaches at California College for the Arts. His degrees are from Howard University and California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of three previous poetry collections; his work appears in many anthologies including \u003ci\u003eRole Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Art \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include a Cave Canem fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and commissions from Minneapolis's Weisman Art Museum and New York's Studio Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas Kearney: Douglas Kearney's first book, Fear, Some, was published in 2006. In 2008, he was honored with a Whiting Writers Award. Cultural critic Greg Tate remarked that Kearney's second book, National Poetry Series selection, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), \"flows from a consideration of urban speech, negro spontaneity and book learning.\" Kearney's third poetry collection, Patter, examines miscarriage, infertility, and parenthood. He has received residencies\/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including Poetry, nocturnes, Pleiades, Iowa Review, Boston Review, and Callaloo. Raised in Altadena, CA, he lives with his family in California's Santa Clarita Valley. He teaches at CalArts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350465790201,"sku":"9780986437373","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SjlCSHJoU0hpcUVacGhnclc1bjZrZz09.webp?v=1769786395","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/buck-studies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}