Blood of the Air: Poems

by Ama Codjoe

Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of several found poems--calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In "She Said," the collection's longest piece, language culled from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081014171X
• ISBN13: 9780810141711
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 6.8"