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Black Swim

Nicholas Goodly

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English
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
13 September 2022
In Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness.

This stunning debut collection is at once “forged from the hurt parts of the ground,” and “proof of a miracle,” spinning ache and sweat and sweetness into a new model of feeling through language. Black people, queer/trans/nonbinary people, flamboyant people, lonely people, gaudy people, kind people, witches, artists, and angry people will meet themselves and each other in these pages. Amidst death and against injustice, Goodly’s poems bear gifts for and from the ancestors—a necklace, a mirror, a form of offered prayer: “If there is a purpose in this life / let me wash my face in it.”

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Imprint:   Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781556596513
ISBN 10:   1556596510
Pages:   80
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicholas Goodly earned their MFA from Columbia University. Their chapbook Black Swim won the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. They were runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize. Goodly is writing editor of WUSSY. They live in Atlanta.

Reviews for Black Swim

When this poet puts on necklaces, drinks, names, dreams, grieves, dances, desires, judges, hopes, lives, dives, the reader is not veering between poles, aware of how skillfully the poet lyrically narrates, how self and strangeness orbit. The reader is learning for the first time how Goodly wraps himself around everything we can do in this human life and names it, caresses it, disciplines it, sets it free. -Brenda Shaughnessy Nicholas Goodly's poems are a 'recipe for geranium eyes' that deliver us again and again, 'vulgar and backward,' into the waters of kindness, divine knowledge, and a true and essential American heart. -Glass: A Journal of Poetry


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