Título: Prelude to Bruise
Autor: Saeed Jones
Sinopse: Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer whos more than wanted: hes desperately needed."FlavorWire "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."D. A. Powell Prelude to Bruise works its tempestuous mojo just under the skin, wreaking a sweet havoc and rearranging the pulse. These poems don't dole out mercy. Mr. Jones undoubtedly dipped his pen in fierce before crafting these stanzas that rock like backslap. Straighten your skirt, children. The doors of the church are open.Patricia Smith Its a big book, a major book. A game-changer. Dazzling, brutal, real. Not just brilliant, caustic, and impassioned but a work that brings historyin which the personal and political are inter-constitutiveto the immediate moment. Jones takes a reader deep into lived experience, into a charged world divided among unstable yet entrenched lines: racial, gendered, political, sexual, familial. Here we absorb each quiet resistance, each whoop of joy, a knowledge of violence and of desire, an unbearable ache/loss/yearning. This is not just a new voice but a new song, a new way of singing, a new music made of deep griefs wildfire, of burning intelligence and of all-feeling heart, scorched and seared. In a poem, Jones says, Boys body is a song only he can hear. But now that we have this book, we can all hear it. And its unforgettable.Brenda Shaughnessy Inside each hunger, each desire, speaks the voice of a boy that admits Ive always wanted to be dangerous. This is not a threat but a promise to break away from the affliction of silence, to make audible the stories that trouble the dimensions of masculinity and discomfort the polite conversations about race. With impressive grace, Saeed Jones situates the queer black body at the center, where his visibility and vulnerability nurture emotional strength and the irrepressible energy to claim those spaces that were once denied or withheld from him. Prelude to a Bruise is a daring debut.Rigoberto González From "Sleeping Arrangement": Take your hand out from under my pillow. And take your sheets with you. Drag them under. Make pretend ghosts. I can't have you rattling the bed springs so keep still, keep quiet. Mistake yourself for shadows. Learn the lullabies of lint. Saeed Jones works as the editor of BuzzfeedLGBT.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Prelude to Bruise”, de Saeed Jones, publicado pela editora Coffee House Press, em 2014 e com 124 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Coffee House Press
Páginas: 124
Ano: 2014
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 1566893844
ISBN13: 9781566893848
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Coffee House Press costumam oferecer experiências de leitura marcadas por uma mistura de intensidade emocional e reflexões profundas sobre identidade, memória e conflito social. As narrativas frequentemente exploram temas como raça, gênero, sexualidade e trauma, com uma linguagem que varia entre o poético e o ensaístico, passando por contos de suspense psicológico e relatos de resistência cultural. O tom pode ser tanto visceral e direto quanto experimental e fragmentado, convidando o leitor a navegar entre o íntimo e o político. O catálogo revela obras que dialogam com questões contemporâneas, muitas vezes atravessadas por tensões raciais e históricas, mas também por momentos de humor ácido e ironia. Essa diversidade se manifesta em textos que ora são mais narrativos, com personagens complexos e cenários urbanos ou históricos, ora mais informativos e críticos, como ensaios feministas e relatos de true crime.
