The Tenant of Fire: Poems

by Ryan Black

Book Overview

The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY--its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book--Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans--were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965909
• ISBN13: 9780822965909
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"