03039cam a2200337 4500 524355660 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802158963 080215896X B08YS2V5ZZ Amazon 6c0f5b61-5002-4e59-b09d-039d857f786f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6133598 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Miller, Kei. Things I Have Withheld [Libby eBook]. Grove Atlantic, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3409kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it — ""to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit "" the crimes that haunt them, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice from a black, male, queer perspective. An almost disarmingly personal collection, Kei dissects his experiences in Jamaica and Britain, working as an artist and intellectual, making friends and lovers, discovering the possibilities of music and dance, literary criticism, culture, and storytelling. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of innovation and beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why, "our actions, defense mechanisms, imaginations and interactions "and those of the world around us.. African American Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c0f5b61-5002-4e59-b09d-039d857f786f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c0f5b61-5002-4e59-b09d-039d857f786f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c0f5b61-5002-4e59-b09d-039d857f786f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)