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Swing at your own riskSwing at your own risk

Swing at your own risk

Metta Sáma

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"Swing at your own risk, structurally designed to swing from one subject to the next, from one lyric utterance to the next, concerns itself with unpacking myths of gender (specifically myths of woman and womanhood), myths of race (specifically myths of the black U.S. person), myths of sexuality (specifically myths of a stable sexual identity) and myths of violence (specifically myths of the scary black man in the U.S. and the scary black woman in the U.S.). Through formal and structural experimentation, the poems attempt to look at the varying issues in the U.S. that can rob humans of opportunities to be radically humane." --

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OL Work ID
OL20153526W

Subjects

American literatureWomenPoetryIdentityGender identityAfrican AmericansRace identityViolence

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