Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The slick wet tongue on dust. %PDF-1.4 %���� 0000032719 00000 n “Roger Reeves' King Me stitches together many worlds into one startling and visceral book. 0000030315 00000 n Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and Tin House, among others. 0000014220 00000 n King Me is a needed book. ( Log Out / Reeves is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. ISBN 978-1-55659-448-9. 0000014107 00000 n Selected works Poetry. The end insists the title “Someday I’ll love Roger Reeves.” Well, Roger Reeves, someday seems more like every day—or every poem that fleshes out the texture of this book. Michael Wasson, nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho, earned his MFA from Oregon State University and his BA from Lewis-Clark State College. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. 0000005618 00000 n H��W]O�F}���}���0_�g*uB�"�[�TU�U�MI�% !���s�I�/��E�{�s�{�5����G8;;�>��$t:/�!��K$���Ϸ��䴧�gz���Q����VP#�Lk�M���9O���3����?|��[K�?A8yӽ��_{�&�^ҽF��-B�A������*�k)��S����0Q>q��sV�>z�ڰ%w�i��|X����Hv*�� dž-��a�� c)�ϴ��/dD���xX�ڳ�@sT�Ա���s%ٜX�x��QM�1���l �{��y?���x King Me. Heavily influenced by pop culture and the Western canon—from Wu Tang and Mike Tyson to Keats and Neruda—these playful poems are shaped by Leave a wake of presence. You can read my review here. It casts its line from the past to the very modern glitz of an urban space drying out, pocked and tattered, streetlit and concrete. For the 2014-2015 school year, Reeves is a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University. He reminds himself of the fiery convulsions that lie beneath the calls and responses to racial slurs. Reeves earned a PhD from the University of Texas and is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 0000009605 00000 n 0]�7�l�D��l������e��RJ�;���O��S�{��J�g�� �=�T��?�m���U�D�p �w���E������r9���$������������fC{��d(�t��Q�v�E�� 0000023817 00000 n King Me ceremonializes historical and social uses of language, too. I belong to the silence of a pomegranate Reeves’ hands and mouth drip with the intimate relationship of beauty and violence. 0000013996 00000 n His poems here present an America that is personal in its specificity, myriad in expanse and scope. And for the poet to keep hauling, to wrestle with language, it’s the repetition of his lines that provides us the energy deep from within his tongue. We hear Tiny Davis, jazz trumpeter and singer, Duchenne, French Neurologist, Van Gogh, and even Love in Mississippi. in gold grills and fried chicken. The lyric in his book confronts us—chapped, curled sores, delicate to the touch, its bright wounds scattered as pleasantly as autumn clovers. Interview by Chris Mink. L30h1�?�gU�����K�T�Z� Z�� endstream endobj 111 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[6 71]/Length 21/Size 77/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream pebbling a white plate. 0000030025 00000 n 0000030645 00000 n 0000022637 00000 n 0000028012 00000 n ( Log Out / As those seeds rest on the plate, we sit patiently to pinch the seeds to our tongues. of our brief salvation. reach into the hollow of a tree and snap a comb Even as the poet exposes the most appalling acts of humanity, here there is great tenderness and generosity. Southeast Review, The Southeast Review. ���[Ȁ�(�k5�M2��������|� ��Ci5.G!�'@Z��xI�4���6Mc48�H�����6����c9���A�h�Ov�^�F�>OaA��~BA�U�#�q_gbD^�����QY�yO�f���^ A��AP"a�9�?��H�MhY]�p���ژh��9��`Sp�T�"MQϒ�n96E���䁧1i���7]���pk�m�R�X ��%�G�y�����y��턣M�p>b��#�砅��,v1�L�=Z�GB#�uH�ީ�{��rH��8�BO{;�����F�Z�ͫ[{�֯uZ�Ȟ����z������INnif@�͒�|0�O��3%�7,`�^Ԫı����m���V8i�7����}�O�VX�K7�n��Ax��?�W�O� ���D endstream endobj 83 0 obj <> endobj 84 0 obj <>stream 0000001431 00000 n like a harvest wagon rides a mule. Once, I was Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. 0000002623 00000 n 0000006890 00000 n h�bbbb`b``Ř � {h � endstream endobj 78 0 obj <>/Metadata 4 0 R/Outlines 1 0 R/Pages 3 0 R/StructTreeRoot 6 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 79 0 obj <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 80 0 obj <> endobj 81 0 obj <> endobj 82 0 obj <>stream Reeves uses lessons of his experiences and the traumatic and often saddening 0000033403 00000 n Listen to the corn 0000001263 00000 n It’s almost too much to handle, but Reeves guides us with as much of his grace as his muscled encouragement. King Me is …, My Name Is My Own: Celebrating June Jordan & Ruth Stone. And there was no honey inside the house. Adopting personae that range from a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, Reeves investigates violence and the politics of poverty, gender, race, and self. committing suicide in the stream out back.
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