Best Barbarian: Poems

by Roger Reeves

Book Overview

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man.

Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: "Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind / Of another's want, a rose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324064455
• ISBN13: 9781324064459
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.3"