Bottom Rail on Top

by David Bradford

Book Overview

Finalist A.M. Klein Poetry Prize* Shortlisted 2024 Raymound Souster Award*

A rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it.

Somewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771316101
• ISBN13: 9781771316101
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.5"