Description

Wayne State University Press, paperback

Publication Date: December 1, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Written against a backdrop of heartbreak and loneliness and spanning the geography of Cincinnati, Detroit, and New York, this is a complex, intriguing book of poetry that plays dynamically with language as each new reading brings forth something unseen from the previous reading. Highlighting the varied modes of writing that Tyrone Williams has masteredthe fractal lyric, the metahistorical fable, the atomic lexicalStilettos in a Rifle Rangereveals in high resolution the power of representational strategies within American English. Williamss language in particular is an intralingual love affair that all will enjoy.