Prelude to Bruise
![]() First edition cover | |
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]
Contents
[edit]# | 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 |
Reception
[edit]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]
Awards and nominations
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Saeed Jones (August 18, 2014). Prelude to Bruise. Coffee House Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-56689-384-8.
- ^ "Prelude to Bruise". Coffee House Press. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ Feeney, Nolan (September 29, 2014). "Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems". Time. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ Journey, Anna. "The Queer Baroque: On Saeed Jones's Prelude to Bruise". The Kenyon Review (Fall 2014 ed.). Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones". Publishers Weekly. September 1, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ El-Mohtar, Amal (September 3, 2014). "Brilliant, Unsparing 'Prelude' Will Leave A Bruise". NPR. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Prelude to Bruise". American Library Association. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". PEN America. February 2, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Publishing Triangle's 27th annual Triangle Awards to be presented". Windy City Times. March 10, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ Lund, Elizabeth (March 10, 2015). "The best in poetry: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 20, 2019.