Mutiny - Phillip B. Williams

Category: Adults, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: African American Spiritual & Religious

Written by Phillip B. Williams
Read by Phillip B. Williams
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Winner of the 2022 American Book Award

Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

Finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Boston Globe and Lit Hub

Mutiny: a rebellion, a subversion, an onslaught. In poems that rebuke classical mythos and Western canonical figures, and embrace Afro-Diasporanfolk and spiritual imagery, Phillip B. Williams conjures the hell of being erased, exploited, and ill-imagined and then, through a force and generosity of vision, propels himself into life, selfhood, and a path forward. Intimate, bold, and sonically mesmerizing, Mutiny addresses loneliness, desire, doubt, memory, and the borderline between beauty and tragedy. With a ferocity that belies the tenderness and vulnerability at the heart of this remarkable collection, Williams honors the transformative power of anger, and the clarity that comes from allowing that anger to burn clean.

Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
Release date: 09-07-21