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Bittering the Wound

by Jacqui Germain
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781637680568
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Autumn House Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Autumn House Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 72
  • Original Price: USD 16.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / African American & Black, Women Authors, and Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss

Bittering the Wound by Jacqui Germain, selected by Douglas Kearney as the winner of the 2021 CAAP Book Prize is a firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.

Part documentation, part conjuring, this debut collection works to share the narrative of the event with more complexity, audacity, care, and specificity than public media accounts typically allow. Throughout the book, Germain also grapples with navigating the impacts of sustained protest-related trauma on mental health as it relates to activism and organizing. The book also takes occasional aim at the media that sensationalized these scenes into a spectacle and at the faceless public that witnessed them.

Bittering the Wound challenges the way we discuss, write about, and document political unrest. It offers fresh language and perspective on a historic period that reverberated around the world. Germain takes the reader through poems that depict a range of scenes--from mid-protest to post-protest--and personifies St. Louis with a keen and loving eye.

Germain, Jacqui: - Jacqui Germain is a poet, journalist, and former labor and student organizer living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of the chapbook When the Ghosts Come Ashore, and her poems have been published in The Rumpus, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Offing, Muzzle Magazine, Anomaly, and elsewhere, and they have been anthologized in Bettering American Poetry, Volume 3, and others.

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