Spit Back a Boy: Poems

by Iain Haley Pollock

Book Overview

Iain Haley Pollock's poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish supper to an ancient queen who howls, "Sea, you is ugly," from the creaking of slave ships launched from Lancaster to gunfire on a contemporary Philadelphia street. Such lyric moments find grounding in stories woven through this book--in one story line, a boy with a black mother and white father wishes he could shed his white skin or carve into what lies beneath: "I flung...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820339083
• ISBN13: 9780820339085
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"