Grace Engine (Wisconsin Poetry Series) Binding:Paperback Biographies

Biographies

we often alter our habits or subsume our unique personalities

“Size Ain’t Shit

a man who is tall

A memoir of many threads

Grace Engine (Wisconsin Poetry Series) Binding:Paperback BiographiesWords carry the dead like henchmen, in Joshua Burtons extraordinary debut volume, Grace Engine. These spare and powerful poems are like pallbearers, like eulogists, like survivors, like battered souls hoping and dreaming for a future that may never be. Grappling head on with the history of lynchings, mental illness, and the endurance of black bodies and psyches against impossible odds, Burton writes, I spent so many years being afraid to be black,