{"product_id":"king-me-9781556594489","title":"King Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the \"Best Poetry Books of the Year\" list from \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A sophisticated and breathtaking writer, Reeves takes the reader on a harrowing journey: each poem comes packed with arresting imagery, relentless in its examination of how tragedy and trauma become internalized -- cleaning out the wounds to understand the pain.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roger Reeves' \u003ci\u003eKing Me\u003c\/i\u003e stitches together many worlds into one startling and visceral book. His ranging, encyclopedic knowledge crosses history, medicine, biology, metapoetics and more, but he tackles it all with a bold and sonorous surrealist flow.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Microreviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, \u003ci\u003eKing Me\u003c\/i\u003e examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, \"While writing \u003ci\u003eKing Me\u003c\/i\u003e, I became very interested in the mythology of king, the one who is sacrificed at the end of the harvest season. . . . For me, the myth manifests in the killing of young black men, Emmett Till, and in the ways America deems young, black male bodies as expendable--Jean Michel Basquiat, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson. These are the young kings whom we love to kill--over and over again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Some Young Kings\": \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe hummingbirds inside my chest, with their needle-nosed pliers for tonguesand hammer-heavy wings, have left a messof ticks in my lungs and a punctured lullabyin my throat. Little boy blue come blowyour horn. The cow's in the meadow. And Dorothy's alone in the corn with Jack, his black fingers, the brass of his lips, the half-moons of his fingernails clickingalong her legs until she howls--Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Reeves\u003c\/b\u003e earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing and his PhD from the University of Texas. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reeves, Roger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Roger Reeves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962743664715,"sku":"9781556594489","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_0e56696c-c44b-45ba-a2a9-da17d6817558.jpg?v=1605736997","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/king-me-9781556594489","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}