All the Names Given: Poems

Title: All the Names Given: Poems Author: Antrobus, Raymond ISBN: 9781951142926 Publisher: Tin House Books Published: 2021 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Poetry 1367941 Publisher Description: On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory in All The Names Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. The collection opens with poems about the author's surname--one that shouldn't have survived into modernity--and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space in which the poet reckons with his own ancestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The po