Looking and seeing : poems, essays, fragments /

Looking and seeing : poems, essays, fragments /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oakland, California : Omnidawn, 2023. ©2023
Description:	97, 89 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	American poetry -- 21st century. Self -- Poetry. Death -- Poetry. Autobiographical poetry, American. American poetry Autobiographical poetry, American Death Self Autobiographical poetry, American. poetry. Poetry Autobiographical poetry. Upside-down books. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13445120

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Varying Form of Title:	Seeing and looking
Other title:	Seeing and looking.
Other uniform titles:	Container of (work): Tran, Truong, 1969- Looking and seeing. Container of (work): Potter, Damon, 1985- Seeing and looking.
ISBN:	9781632431233 1632431238
Notes:	Two works bound back-to-back and inverted; titles from separate title pages.
Summary:	"Looking And Seeing is a poetic work of equal parts yearning, regret and righteous indignation. On these pages, what is said and what is written renders us seen in all our complications. I wrote this book as a singular and lifelong investigation of my being and my body as someone brown moving through white spaces. That it now finds itself bound together in a single volume and in proximity to the work of my friend Damon Potter, that he is a white man and I am a brown man, and that I am writing this into existence, means the world to me. Seeing and Looking is a recording taken in proximity to my friend Truong Tran. In this book, I examine who I am and who I want to be, the complications and realities of trying to be good while also benefitting from our oppressive past and present. I am oppressor. And also my friends die. Someday I'll die. I witness horrible acts. I witness the moon. I remember awful grains I've committed myself. In Seeing and Looking, I wonder how to be respectfully dying while everyone else is also dying. In Seeing and Looking, I witness my self"--

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Call Number:	PS595.S43L66 2023
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