{"product_id":"fantasia-for-the-man-in-tommye-blount-9781945588495","title":"Fantasia for the Man in Blue","description":"In his debut collection \u003ci\u003eFantasia for the Man in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire and violence. A black man's late-night encounter with a police officer--the titular \"man in blue\"--becomes an extended meditation on a dangerous erotic fantasy. The late Luther Vandross, resurrected here in a suite of poems, addresses the contradiction between his public persona and a life spent largely in the closet: \"It's a calling, this hunger \/ to sing for a love I'm too ashamed to want for myself.\" In \"Aaron McKinney Cleans His Magnum,\" the convicted killer imagines the barrel of the gun he used to bludgeon Matthew Shepard as an \"infant's small mouth\" as well as the \"sad calculator\" that was \"built to subtract from and divide a town.\" In these and other poems, Blount viscerally captures the experience of the \"other\" and locates us squarely within these personae.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tommye Blount\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945588497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2020 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/20\/2020","brand":"Tommye Blount","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049787420927,"sku":"9781945588495","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bab7cd04-1c54-4717-aef9-9ae1df64b0d9.jpg?v=1685003455","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fantasia-for-the-man-in-tommye-blount-9781945588495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}