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Boy with Thorn
Boy with Thorn | Rickey Laurentiis
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Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Selected by Terrance Hayes In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation�the imagination itself, (…more)
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Bertha_Mason
Boy with Thorn | Rickey Laurentiis
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My girlfriend and I went to see St. Vincent play in Nashville, and since I was in Nashville I had to stop by McKay's, my favorite indie warehouse bookstore. I highly recommend Boy With Thorn to anyone, by the way. I liked it so much I jumped at the chance to own a copy.

batsy And I've heard only wonderful things about the Pinckney book. 7y
Bertha_Mason I'll let you know how it is. I got so excited when I saw it. 😊 7y
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megan_spiegel
Boy with Thorn | Rickey Laurentiis
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Ekphrasis; received and invented forms; moments of surprising, almost Plath-like diction and syntax; darkness; and powerful writing about bodies, race, human interaction.

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