Black Swim by Goodly, Nicholas

Black Swim (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556596513)

Vendor: Nicholas Goodly
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$17.00
$17.00
$17.00
Subtotal: $17.00
Black Swim by Goodly, Nicholas

Black Swim

$17.00
Black Swim by Goodly, Nicholas

Black Swim

$17.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

In Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness.

This stunning debut collection is at once "forged from the hurt parts of the ground," and "proof of a miracle," spinning ache and sweat and sweetness into a new model of feeling through language. Black people, queer/trans/nonbinary people, flamboyant people, lonely people, gaudy people, kind people, witches, artists, and angry people will meet themselves and each other in these pages. Amidst death and against injustice, Goodly's poems bear gifts for and from the ancestors--a necklace, a mirror, a form of offered prayer: "If there is a purpose in this life / let me wash my face in it."



Author: Nicholas Goodly
ISBN-10: 1556596510
ISBN-13: 9781556596513
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 11
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 102
By Nicholas Goodly
By Nicholas Goodly
x

Nicholas Goodly earned their MFA from Columbia University.
Their chapbook Black Swim won the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook
Fellowship. They were runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and
finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize. Goodly is writing editor of WUSSY.
They live in Atlanta.

Recently Viewed Products