Author | Saeed Jones |
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Cover artist | Syreeta McFadden (photo)
[1] Linda Koutsky (design) [1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Coffee House Press |
Publication date | September 9, 2014 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( paperback) |
Pages | 124 |
Awards | 2015
Barbara Gittings Literature Award 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry |
ISBN | 978-1-56689-374-9 |
811/.6 | |
LC Class | PS3610.O6279 P74 2014 |
Prelude to Bruise is a 2014 poetry collection by American author Saeed Jones, published by Coffee House Press on September 9, 2014. [2] [3] [4]
# | Title |
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Anthracite | |
1 | Insomniac |
Closet of Red | |
The Blue Dress | |
Isaac, after Mount Moriah | |
Pretending to Drown | |
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown | |
Boy at Edge of Woods | |
Terrible Boy | |
Daedalus, after Icarus | |
Boy in a Whalebone Corset | |
Boy Found inside a Wolf | |
Boy at Threshold | |
After the First Shot | |
Last Call | |
2 | "Don't Let the Sun Set on You" |
Prelude to a Bruise | |
Coyote Cry | |
Jasper, 1998 | |
Lower Ninth | |
Drag | |
Kudzu | |
Beheaded Kingdom | |
Thralldom | |
Cruel Body | |
Thallium | |
He Thinks He Can Leave Me | |
3 | Secondhand (Smoke) |
Body & Kentucky Bourbon | |
Eclipse of My Third Life | |
Guilt | |
Sleeping Arrangement | |
Apologia | |
Ketamine & Company | |
Thralldom II | |
Skin Like Brick Dust | |
Kingdom of Trick, Kingdom of Drug | |
Blue Prelude | |
In Nashville | |
4 | Highway 407 |
Meridian | |
Mercy | |
Mississippi Drowning | |
Casket Sharp | |
Dominion | |
The Fabulist | |
Room without a Ghost | |
Dirge | |
After Last Light | |
Hour between Dog & Wolf | |
Postapocalyptic Heartbeat | |
5 | History, according to Boy |
6 | Last Portrait as Boy |
Publishers Weekly praised the collection, writing, "Solid from start to finish, possessing amazing energy and focus, a bold new voice in poetry has announced itself." [5]
Writing for NPR, poet Amal El-Mohtar said, "There are too many exceptional poems here to single out, and not a single one that didn't at least impress me." [6]
It won the 2015 Stonewall Book Award- Barbara Gittings Literature Award [7] and the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. [8] It was a finalist for the 2015 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, [9] the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, [10] and the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. [11]