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Silencer
Silencer | Marcus Wicker
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Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Oddisee meet traditional verse in this urgent collection of poems by Pushcart winner and NAACP Image Award finalist Marcus Wicker Welcome to Marcus Wicker's Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police brutality in twenty-first-century America. Precisely contradictory, bittersweet, witty, and heartbreaking, Silencer is where the political and the personal collide. Driven by the sounds of hip-hop and reimagined forms and structures, Wicker's explosive second book is composed of poems at war with themselves, verses in which the poet questions his own faith in God, in hope, in the American Dream, and in himself. Pushing our ideas of traditions and expectations, these poems and queries work in concert towards creating a new dialectic.
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hwestfall
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A powerful book of poetry.

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queerbookreader
Silencer | Marcus Wicker
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Tonight's read ✨

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actuallyalison
Silencer | Marcus Wicker
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Everything from the title, to the diction, to the brutal honesties in this collection are written masterfully. I felt hopeful and convicted at once when I set this work down.

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WanderingBookaneer
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Dear Pac, if there‘s a heaven
for a G, the red Rorschach splotches
of cop-shot bodies you must stomach
floating toward the kingdom
each sunset.

GondorGirl I'm not sure if clicking the "love" ❤ is appropriate here, but wow... powerful! 7y
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BookishFeminist
Silencer | Marcus Wicker
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I‘ve been in more reading slumps than I can count in the past year or so. In another one and trying to kick it with some great poetry. I‘ve had my eye on this collection since it came out. #booksnbucks

Megabooks Me too friend! I am working on finishing my third book this month. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Hope both of us get out of them soon. 7y
Verity I‘m so not a poetry reader, so I‘m totally jealous of those who can. 7y
SoniaC This sounds good. I look forward to hearing what you think of it. 7y
maniraj88 Hy 7y
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ReadingEnvy
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(the poem pictured ends "in a breastplate, touch me light as a feather, please, jog in place.")
These poems confront the constant onslaught of microaggressions when you are a black man in (midwestern) America. Love the cover and the honesty - even the honesty of tiredness, of numbness - found in these poems. #edelweiss

Kristy_K I'm really looking forward to this one. 7y
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