Poetry
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"In May's debut collection, the human body is machine, manufactured in the motor city, alive with the urban sounds and beats. Poems buzz and purr like well-oiled chassis. Grit and trial and song thrum through each line. Tight syntax, finely tuned internal rhyme, and punchy consonants percuss each poem's beat like an unfailing 808 drum"--
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1 edition- Other · English · 2013Alice James Books · 74 pages · 9781938584022
American poetryAfrican American authorsPoetry (poetic works by one author)POETRY / American / GeneralPOETRY / American / African American